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Rotating High-Pressure Sodium Lamps Provide Flowering Plants For Spring MarketsEast Lansing MI (SPX) Sep 23, 2010 When consumers visit garden centers in spring they will most likely buy flowering ornamental plants that are ready for their home gardens. Studies have shown that consumers favor plants that are already in flower rather than those that are "vegetative"-a preference that can present multiple challenges for commercial growers. To satisfy consumers' wishes, producers of ready-to-flower ornamentals like bedding plants and perennials start growing crops far in advance of the spring buying season, often ... read more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2010On September 15, three tropical cyclones were active in the Atlantic Ocean basin, two of them powerful Category Four hurricanes on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 satellite captured an image of Tropical Storm Karl and Hurricanes Igor and Julia in one image on Sept. 15 at 1445 UTC (10:45 a.m. EDT). At that time, Tropical S ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 15, 2010China said Wednesday it would pay close attention to BHP Billiton's hostile bid for Canada's Potash Corp, the world's largest fertiliser maker, in the first official comment on the issue. "We will pay close attention to this transaction," commerce ministry spokesman Yao Jian told reporters. Potash last month rejected a hostile bid from mining giant BHP valued at 40 billion dollars. C ... more 
Manila, Philippines (SPX) Sep 16, 2010Farmers cultivating rice on 12 million hectares of flood-prone areas in India are planting flood-tolerant rice varieties at unprecedented rates, thanks to faster seed multiplication, targeted dissemination, and linking of partners. Dr. Umesh Singh, senior scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), said, "Earlier, we only provided and field-tested IRRI rice lines that we ... more |
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A Gardening Gift May Hold Key To BiodiversityEdinburgh UK (SPX) Sep 15, 2010 Gardeners are used to cross-breeding flowers to produce pretty petals or sweet scents - now scientists have shown the importance of nature's talent for producing new types of flowers. DNA analysis of wild evergreen rhododendrons in the Himalayas has suggested that hundreds of species of the plant could be derived from hybrids - cross-breeds between different species. Their findings may help explain the rich biodiversity of the natural world, as it shows how random pairings of wild plants mil ... read more |
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