It was first seen in France in 2000, and entered the country via Corsica. The sub-Saharan origin of Culicoides imicola, the main vector of the disease in the…
Raising tilapia is easy and inexpensive. It adapts well to fresh or salt water and fattens fast. Unlike most salmoniforms in aquaculture (salmon, trout, perch,…
The deaths are probably due to a multitude of factors, which have a detrimental effect on the immune system, including some viruses which could increase the…
The engineered eggplant expresses a natural insecticide derived from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), making it resistant to the fruit and shoot borer…
This deduction stems from the findings of their new study, which concludes that if everyone in New York state followed a low-fat vegetarian diet, the state…
Irrigated rice production provides about 75 percent of the world’s rice needs, and has a particularly important role to play at the moment as international…
The often great age of bridges and the increasing volume of traffic (particularly heavy traffic) which they are expected to carry are in clear contradiction to…
New help may be on the way for beleaguered growers of popular cucurbit crops like cucumbers and watermelons. Many varieties of the widely grown bottlegourd…
This is a pioneering methodology for studying the simultaneous effect of increased CO2 and ambient temperature. The research project, which will be undertaken…
Metadata allows information users to find and evaluate the resources: the user will get an overview of how far a particular information resource will be of use…
MTT Agrifood Research Finland has completed a study to reveal the sensitive agricultural products in the EU due to further tariff reductions in the projected…
Two new varieties of southernpeas—WhipperSnapper and GreenPack-DG—boast attractive colors, pleasing textures and flavors, plus nutrients like protein and…
New protocol and software developments are helping farmers put the precision back in “precision agriculture” by making it easier for growers to use previously…
A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought…
Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting to be cut off or eaten up. Many plants form internal communications…
This fact has led experts from the British Ecological Society, Bournemouth University, the Forestry Commission and the National Park Authority to convene a…
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