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Growing Drought-Tolerant Crops Inching ForwardMilwaukee WI (SPX) Aug 31, 2010 A collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, has used the tools of structural biology to understand how a synthetic chemical mimics abscisic acid (ABA), a key stress hormone that helps plants cope with adverse environmental conditions such as drought. The results are published online in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology in advance of print publication later. For years scientists have searched for practical ways to use ABA sign ... read more |
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London (UPI) Aug 26, 2010 British archaeologists say they've discovered a Roman "industrial park" that may have been home to a famous missing legion. The unearthed site in North Yorkshire includes the remains of a water-powered flour mill used to grind grain and produce food, clothes, graves and pottery for the soldiers, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday. The site was excavated as part of a $494 mill ... more 
Riverside CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2010Drought-tolerant crops have moved closer to becoming reality. A collaborative team of scientists has made a significant advance on the discovery last year by the University of California, Riverside's Sean Cutler of pyrabactin, a synthetic chemical that mimics a naturally produced stress hormone in plants to help them cope with drought conditions. Led by researchers at The Medical College o ... more  
Geneva (AFP) Aug 26, 2010The UN said Thursday an insecticide used in farming and to treat woodworm, Lindane, was among nine highly toxic chemicals added to a "dirty dozen" of dangerous substances on an international red list. The eight others added to the Stockholm Convention under changes that came into force on Thursday are also used commercially in some countries as pesticides or industrial flame retardants, the ... more |
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Pakistan warns of new floods as UN says 800,000 cut offHyderabad, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 25, 2010 Pakistan battled Wednesday to save areas threatened by more devastating flood waters as the United Nations warned that 800,000 people in desperate need of aid had been cut off by the deluge. The UN launched an urgent appeal Tuesday for more helicopters to deliver aid to those people reachable only by air, after floods triggered by a torrent of monsoon rains washed away bridges and vital access roads. "As monsoon floods continue to displace millions in southern Pakistan, an estimated 800,000 peop ... read more |
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