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Fungicides may not increase corn yields unless disease developsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 24, 2011 Unless a corn crop is at risk of developing fungal diseases, a Purdue University study shows that farmers would be smart to skip fungicide treatments that promise increased yields. Kiersten Wise, an assistant professor of botany and plant pathology, said fungicides used in fields where conditions were optimal for fungal diseases improved yields and paid for themselves. In fields where fungal diseases are unlikely to develop, however, applying a fungicide is likely a waste of money. "About fi ... read more |
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 Artificial light quality affects herbivore preference for seedlings In horticultural production, growers often depend on systems that use artificial light to produce high-quality transplants. Although the systems are efficient, fluorescent lamps can produce plants w ... more | .. |
  Patagonian shepherds fear Chile ash disaster While air passengers from Argentina to Australia suffer travel misery from Chile's volcanic ash cloud, Patagonian farmers have a graver problem: what to do with 1.5 million sheep. ... more | .. |
 European And US Consumer Views On Cloned Products Differ Not all consumers share the same attitudes toward animal cloning, but the latest research from Sean Fox, Kansas State University professor of agricultural economics, shows that Americans may be more ... more | .. |
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  'Super sand' for better purification of drinking water Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand - a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world - into a "super sand" with five times the filtering capacit ... more | .. |
 Early-season strawberry tested in high elevation conditions In response to increased awareness generated by the expanding local foods movement, demand for fresh strawberries has increased throughout the United States. The fresh market strawberry industry in ... more | .. |
 Pollination services at risk following declines of Swedish bumblebees Scientists from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the University of Lund have discovered that the community composition of bumble bee species and their relative abundances have cha ... more | .. |
  Raytheon's First-of-Its-Kind Space-Based Hyperspectral Sensor Marks Second Year on Orbit A groundbreaking space sensor built by Raytheon has completed its second year on orbit, exceeding its design life by 100 percent. The Advanced Responsive, Tactically Effective Military Imaging Senso ... more |
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Artificial ocean carbon recycling system turns seawater CO2 into bioplastic feedstock
Bacterium Breakthrough Points to New Path for Battery Self-Recycling
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 Salivating over wheat plants may net Hessian flies big meal or death The interaction between a Hessian fly's saliva and the wheat plant it is attacking may be the key to whether the pest eats like a king or dies like a starving pauper, according to a study done at Pu ... more | .. |
 Purdue handheld technology detects chemicals on store produce Purdue University researchers recently took their miniature mass spectrometer grocery shopping to test for traces of chemicals on standard and organic produce. In the technology's first venture out ... more | .. |
 Probing the secrets of the ryegrasses LMU chemists led by Professor Dirk Trauner have developed a concise and efficient method for the synthesis of the alkaloid loline and related compounds. Loline alkaloids are a biologically interesti ... more | .. |
 Philippines' Jollibee food chain eyes China Jollibee Foods Corp, the Philippines' top restaurant chain, said Wednesday it planned to set up 280 new stores this year, including 90 in China, as part of a major expansion drive. ... more |
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 New curation tool a boon for genetic biologists With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information. The project was a coll ... more | .. |
 Where have all the flowers gone? It's summer wildflower season in the Rocky Mountains, a time when high-peaks meadows are dotted with riotous color.But for how long? Once, wildflower season in montane meadow ecosystems extended thr ... more | .. |
 Native Bees are Selective about Where They Live and Feed Native bees - often small, stingless, solitary and unnoticed in the flashier world of stinging honeybees - are quite discriminating about where they live, according to U.S. Geological Survey researc ... more | .. |
 Landsat 5 Satellite Helps Emergency Managers Fight Largest Fire in Arizona History The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting cont ... more |
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Venezuela's Maduro to US: 'No crazy war, please!'
UK to urge more long-range missiles for Ukraine at London summit
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 Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering On May 19, 2011, the Mississippi River reached a historic crest at Vicksburg. According to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) of the U.S. National Weather Service, the river reached ... more | .. |
 NASA/NOAA GOES Project Releases 2 Week Movie of Chilean Volcanic Eruption The NASA/NOAA GOES satellite Project released a satellite animation of two-weeks of eruptions from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satel ... more | .. |
 Land barons seen behind Amazon activist killings Nearly a month after the murder in Brazil's Amazon of an activist couple believed to have been threatened by land and logging barons, the investigation has gone nowhere. ... more | .. |
 Earth from Space: A gush of volcanic gas This image shows the huge plume of sulphur dioxide that spewed from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcanic Complex, which lies in the Andes about 600 km south of Santiago. After lying dormant ... more |
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 Baylor Study Finds Golden Algae Responsible for Killing Millions of Fish Less Toxic in Sunlight A new Baylor University study has found that sunlight decreases the toxicity of golden algae, which kills millions of fish in the southern United States every year. While golden algae is prima ... more | .. |
 Food prices to rise as France seeks reform A U.N.-backed report is predicting a decade of higher food prices just as France is pushing the issue of commodity trading reform to the top of the Group of 20 agenda. ... more | .. |
 Pesticide Impact: Comparing Lab, Field-Scale Results Assessing the environmental risk of pesticide use is an important, complex task that requires knowledge of the equilibrium sorption parameter. This helps researchers assess the risk of pesticides le ... more | .. |
Peru's capital declares itself a GMO-free zone Peru's capital Lima declared itself a "GMO-free zone" in a municipal ordinance on Thursday in response to a controversial government decree that critics feared would see the country flooded with genetically modified organisms. ... more |
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Europe plans satellite powerhouse to rival Musk's Starlink
Precision laser links overcome turbulence for better satellite communications
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 Dawn of agriculture took toll on health When populations around the globe started turning to agriculture around 10,000 years ago, regardless of their locations and type of crops, a similar trend occurred: The height and health of the peop ... more | .. |
 Unique Gene Combinations Control Tropical Maize Response to Day Lengths Tropical maize proves to be a valuable genetic resource, containing genetics not found in USA Corn Belt maize. Most tropical maize varieties respond to the long summer day lengths that occur in U.S. ... more | .. |
 Using Recycled Cardboard in Food Packaging Risks Contaminating Food with Mineral Oils Harmful mineral oils from the printing inks used on cardboard can migrate into food if recycled cardboard is used for food packaging. It may contaminate food even if the recycled cardboard is used f ... more | .. |
 Multi-paddock grazing is superior to continuous grazing A long-term study verifies multi-paddock grazing improves vegetation, soil health and animal production relative to continuous grazing in large-scale ranches, according to Texas AgriLife Research sc ... more |
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 Chilean Volcano Plume Moving Around the World Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordon Caulle and have tracked it around the w ... more | .. |
 Chillingham cattle cowed by climate change Spring flowers are opening sooner and songbirds breeding earlier in the year, but scientists know little about how climate change is affecting phenology - the timing of key biological events - in UK ... more | .. |
 GMES operations another step closer Today, the European Commission has signed an agreement confirming the transfer of funds to ESA for the initial operations of the space component for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Securit ... more | .. |
 Controlling Starch in Sugar Factories Factory trials conducted by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have led to recommendations for controlling or preventing starch buildup in processed raw sugars and products made with t ... more |
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