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Combating Plant Diseases Is Key For Sustainable CropsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2011 Climate change is likely to make plants more vulnerable to infectious disease, which will threaten crop yield and impact on the price and availability of food. Dr Adrian Newton, presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Harrogate, explains how exploiting diversity in crops is the best option to improve food security in a changing climate. Pest and disease management has helped double food production in the last 40 years, but 10-16% of the global harvest is ... read more |
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 Invasive Plant Threat Depends On Spatial The phrase "invasive plant species" typically evokes negative images such as broad swaths of kudzu smothered trees along the highway or purple loosestrife taking over wetlands and clogging waterways ... more | .. |
 New Genetic Study Helps To Solve Darwin's Mystery About The Ancient Evolution Of Flowering Plants The evolution and diversification of the more than 300,000 living species of flowering plants may have been "jump started" much earlier than previously calculated, a new study indicates. Accor ... more | .. |
  Pulling Back The Sheets Melting ice sheets from Greenland and Antarctica has long been tied to rising sea levels. But these two sources are outpacing all others - including mountain glaciers and ice caps - to become the do ... more | .. |
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 Japanese queue to buy produce from nuclear crisis area Japanese shoppers on Tuesday snapped up fruit and vegetables farmed in the area hit by a nuclear disaster at a specially organised market, saying they wanted to show solidarity with the region. ... more | .. |
 Joint Polar Satellite System Program And The US Budget While our politicians are arguing over a FY 2011 budget that should have been passed by last September, many space programs of vital national interest are being delayed, and their futures are coming ... more | .. |
 Brazil meat processor to invest $300 mn in China Brazilian meat processing company Marfrig plans to invest 300 million dollars to expand its operations in China, the company said Monday in a statement. ... more | .. |
  Spring Is Fireball Season What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming Daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don't forget the meteors. "Spri ... more |
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China's low-altitude economy takes flight across multiple industries
China's satellite network group advances Beidou-internet integration
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 Arctic Ice Gets A Check Up Scientists tracking the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice said that 2011 was among the lowest ice extents measured since satellites began collecting the data in 1979. Using satellites to track ... more | .. |
 Bright Fireball Leads To Meteorite Search In Tennessee Did you see a bright flash in the sky over Tullahoma, Tenn., last night? Have we got a scavenger hunt for you... At approximately 08:21:57 p.m. CDT on April 6, 2011, NASA all-sky meteor camera ... more | .. |
 For NASA's Aquarius, Quest For Salt A Global Endeavor With more than a few stamps on its passport, NASA's Aquarius instrument on the Argentinian Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC)-D spacecraft will soon embark on its space mission to "taste" Ea ... more | .. |
 3-D map of Philippines to help combat disasters President Benigno Aquino said Friday he plans to have a 3-D map of the Philippine archipelago created as part of an effort to guard against disasters. ... more |
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 Latin American Working To Rejuvenate Crop Collections Crop specialists in Central America have announced that a major rescue effort is underway in one of the heartlands of ancient agriculture to regenerate thousands of unique varieties of coffee, tomat ... more | .. |
  Low Fertilizer Use Drives Deforestation In West Africa Low-input farming for cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degredation of West Africa's tropical forest area, according to a new study by researchers at the Inter ... more | .. |
 First Consistent Geological Interpretation Of East Africa Rift System Astrium GEO-Information Services has completed a geological interpretation study of the East Africa Rift System (EARS) and the surrounding area that is increasingly becoming an exploration hotspot f ... more | .. |
 Scientists Find New Type Of Mineral In Historic Meteorite NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in Dec ... more |
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U.S. deploys carrier strike group to the Caribbean
Trump: Qatar is readying peacekeepers for Gaza
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 World food prices fall for first time in eight months World food prices fell for the first time in eight months in March after record highs largely due to oil prices, though the situation remains volatile, the UN's food agency said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 China milk activist 'force-fed on hunger strike' A Chinese father who was jailed after campaigning for victims of a tainted milk scandal said he was force-fed China-made milk powder while on hunger strike, a report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Egypt in talks with Uganda over new Nile treaty A 40-member Egyptian delegation held talks with Uganda's president on a new treaty signed by upstream countries for the equitable sharing of the Nile waters, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Seeing Rice With X-Rays May Improve Crop Yields Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the ... more |
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 Cost Effective Manure Management Recycling manure is an important practice, especially for large livestock producers. Manure can be used as fertilizer to aid in crop production, aiding livestock producers that grow their own feed c ... more | .. |
 SeaWiFS' Thirteen Years Of Observing Our Home Planet Mary Cleave left the NASA astronaut corps in the early 1990s to make a rare jump from human spaceflight to Earth science. She was going to work on an upcoming mission to measure gradations in ocean ... more | .. |
 Global Hawks Mark Year Of Science Flights This week marks the first anniversary of the NASA Global Hawk project's initial science mission. On April 7, 2010, Global Hawk No. 872 took off from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards A ... more | .. |
 NASA Airborne Radar Set To Image Hawaiian Volcano The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. A NASA ... more |
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Orion spacecraft prepared for lunar mission as stacking with SLS rocket achieved
Flight Readiness Achieved for CarbSAR Mission With SSTL and Oxford Space Systems
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 Salt-Seeking Spacecraft Arrives At Launch Site An international spacecraft that will take NASA's first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC ... more | .. |
 Research On Satellite Imagery Aims To Advance Sustainable Agriculture Irrigating agricultural crops places huge demands on water resources around the globe. In Spain for instance, where agriculture is a major contributor to the nation's economy, 85% of country's total ... more | .. |
Quake-hit sake brewers urge Japanese to party Sake brewers from quake-hit northeastern Japan have urged people to enjoy their usual boisterous parties under cherry blossom as a means to help the regional economy. ... more | .. |
Huge rooftop greenhouse is Montreal's local farm A Montreal company is eagerly awaiting a crop of tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs grown in a vast greenhouse perched on top of an office building, and billed as the world's first rooftop garden farm. ... more |
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Romanian agriculture minister pleads for GM soy Romanian Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara on Wednesday said he wanted his country to grow genetically-modified soy, a crop that is not currently allowed by the European Union. ... more | .. |
 Sugar-Grain Sized Meteorites Rocked The Climates Of Early Earth And Mars Bombardments of 'micro-meteorites' on Earth and Mars four billion years ago may have caused the planets' climates to cool dramatically, hampering their ability to support life, according to research ... more | .. |
 Manage Biological Invasions Like Natural Disasters Biological invasions get less prime-time coverage than natural disasters, but may be more economically damaging and warrant corresponding investments in preparedness and response planning, according ... more | .. |
 Record Loss Of Ozone Over Arctic ESA's Envisat satellite has measured record low levels of ozone over the Euro-Atlantic sector of the northern hemisphere during March. This record low was caused by unusually strong winds, known as ... more |
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