The Netherlands Government is launching a project to promote peace and environmental stability by improving soil health, intensifying farm production, and…
The team, led by Dr Mark Whittingham of Newcastle University's School of Biology and partners*, suggest that current UK agri-environment schemes have worked…
“This supportive modelling approach was initiated and developed by the GREEN team in the mid-1990s, in the hope of achieving a clearer understanding of the…
However, the plantations are under attack from numerous insects, several of which cause considerable damage. In particular, this applies to lepidopteran borers…
Researchers from the University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences aim to find out exactly how the virus infects animals and spreads – a first step in developing…
Now researchers at the University of Warwick are providing British poinsettia growers with the techniques to grow as many poinsettia plants as their European…
Amflora potatoes, which have been modified to be particularly suited for the production of papers and adhesive, are not intended for human consumption. In…
Their work shows that maslinic acid – a natural product extracted from dry olive-pomace oil in oil mills – inhibits serin-protease, an enzyme used by HIV to…
High amounts of antibiotics still are sad reality in large-scale livestock farming. According to the Bundesverband für Tiergesundheit e.V. (Federal Association…
Dr. Jerry Michels, Experiment Station entomologist at Bushland, along with Nagendra Earle, a West Texas A&M University graduate student, began looking at…
Annual wheat, which is traditionally grown in the Great Plains, is planted in the fall and dies after harvest in mid-summer. But Dr. Charlie Rush, Experiment…
The survey also shows that 45 per cent of respondents disagree that farmers are subsidised too much, while another 23 per cent agreed, 21 per cent neither…
Their findings, to be published next week (27 November – 1 December) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, summarizes key…
Each of those activities is dependent on oil, from fuel for transport to the plastic parts of your kettle, car, keyboard and mobile. Development of our…
“The exciting finding is that we have been able to reduce gossypol – which is a very toxic compound – from cottonseed to a level that is considered safe for…
The researchers started the effort for creation of somatic transgenic animals several years ago (InformNauka described these investigations in the material…
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