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Wild seeds seen as world crop 'insurance'London (UPI) Dec 10, 2010 British scientists say they plan to collect wild plant relatives of essential food crops including wheat, rice and potatoes to preserve their genetic traits. The project, coordinated by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, aims to safeguard valuable genetic traits in wild plants that could be bred into crops to make them more hardy and versatile, the BBC reported Friday. The plant material collected will be stored in seed banks in the long term, but will also be used in "pre-breeding trials ... read more |
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  Redrawing The Map Of Great Britain Based On Human Interaction A group of researchers at MIT, Cornell University and University College London have used one of the world's largest databases of telecommunications records to redraw the map of Great Britain. The r ... more | .. |
 Plants Remember Winter To Bloom In Spring With Help Of Special Molecule The role a key molecule plays in a plant's ability to remember winter, and therefore bloom in the spring, has been identified by University of Texas at Austin scientists. Many flowering plants ... more | .. |
 New Discovery About How Flowering Time Of Plants Can Be Controlled Researchers at Umea Plant Science Center in Sweden discovered, in collaboration with the Syngenta company, a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. Only with the cold of winte ... more | .. |
  Phones are a feminist issue in Bangladesh Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average business executive. ... more |
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 Argentine shepherds, farmers protect forests from soy A group of small farmers and shepherds in this northern Argentine town have been protesting the destruction of forests to make way for soy crops by routinely blocking a major highway. ... more | .. |
Shanghai halts sale of suspected 'dyed' oranges: report Shanghai authorities have ordered fruit vendors to stop selling oranges that have allegedly been dyed with a toxic wax, Chinese media said Friday, in the country's latest food safety scare. ... more | .. |
  Geminid Meteor Shower Defies Explanation The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks this year on Dec. 13th and 14th, is the most intense meteor shower of the year. It lasts for days, is rich in fireballs, and can be seen from almost any point ... more | .. |
 Measuring How Farm Animals Feel CSIRO is researching ways to improve the welfare of livestock by developing scientific methods for assessing how animals 'feel' in response to common management practices. The aim is to reduce ... more |
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 Nanoparticle Gives Antimicrobial Ability To Fight Listeria Longer A Purdue University research team developed a nanoparticle that can hold and release an antimicrobial agent as needed for extending the shelf life of foods susceptible to Listeria monocytogenes. ... more | .. |
 The Worm That Turned On Heavy Metal Researchers in South America have studied the viability of using earthworms to process hazardous material containing high concentrations of heavy metal for the bioremediation of old industrial sites ... more | .. |
 Agrilife Researchers Find Way To Cut Food-Irradiation Levels By Half A team of Texas AgriLife Research engineers has developed a way to cut by as much as half the amount of irradiation needed to kill 99.999 percent of salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens on fresh ... more | .. |
 Fledgling Ecosystem Lets Scientists Observe How Soil, Flora And Fauna Develop How do ecosystems develop? No one really knows, yet. There is however one project, unique in the world, seeking to answer this question. In a former open-pit coal mining area in Brandenburg, Germany ... more |
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 Missouri Grapes Hold Key To Improving World Grape Production In a few years, a sip of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Pinot Noir may include a taste of the "Show-Me" State. The state grape of Missouri - the Norton variety grown at many vineyards around the stat ... more | .. |
  Ethiopia challenges Egypt over Nile water The simmering dispute over the Nile River between Egypt and downstream African states is heating up with Addis Ababa alleging Cairo supports insurgents fighting the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. ... more | .. |
Rains will not stop bumper Australian crop: forecaster Australia is set to post record winter crops despite flood rains and locust plagues in the country's east and a dry spell in the west, the national forecaster said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Geminids Meteor Shower: 'Up All Night' With NASA Baby, it's cold outside - but you can still enjoy the best meteor shower of the year. The 2010 Geminid meteor shower promises to be lively, with realistic viewing rates of 50-80 meteors per hour and ... more |
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Climate change may mean new crop strategy Farmers in the U.S. Midwest could get permanent Southern-style weather if future climate change projections are accurate, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 EU dismisses maiden million citizens' petition European Union officials dismissed Thursday a first-ever call by one million people to change an EU law, with a petition drawing on new citizens' rights aimed at freezing GM crop cultivation. ... more | .. |
 China leads decline in world rural poverty China has led a dramatic decline in rural poverty rates in many parts of the world over the past decade, a report released on Monday by the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development showed. ... more | .. |
 ASU Researcher Uses NASA Satellite To Explore Archaeological Site Remote sensing has been integral to the field of archaeology for many years, but Arizona State University archaeologist Stephen H. Savage is literally taking the use of that technology to new height ... more |
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 Farmers Slowed Down By Hunter-Gatherers As Ancestors Fought For Land Agricultural - or Neolithic - economics replaced the Mesolithic social model of hunter-gathering in the Near East about 10,000 years ago. One of the most important socioeconomic changes in hum ... more | .. |
 India Launch Of Food Security Report Focuses On Rice The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Asia Society launched a new food security report for Asia in Mumbai, calling for increased investment in rice research. The report, Nev ... more | .. |
 Snow From Space Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of the UK's winter landscape by orbiting satellites. European Space Agency satellite instruments have ... more | .. |
  Ethanol in crosshairs as deadline nears on tax credit Ethanol, once seen as an answer to US energy problems, is seeing political support waning as a deadline nears for Congress to decide on extending tax subsidies for the widely used biofuel. ... more |
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