The disease has already destroyed coconut plantations in several world regions: East Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. Like all known phytoplasma…
In the hope of rectifying matters, controlled, or so-called “agroecological”, modernization was launched a decade ago. It is based on the assumption that…
The State, officially the owner of all land, allocated to each family a right of use on rice-growing land and then on forest land. One of the objectives of…
Prof Philip James, who chairs the International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF)*, said that the breakdown of the Doha round of World Trade Organization talks on…
Plant scientists from the University of Leeds and applied agricultural specialists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences will work on joint projects looking at…
This plasticity is of crucial importance for crop productivity in variable, heterogeneous environments; it is thus a target for varietal breeding operations….
Pastoralism has now emerged as the main way of using natural resources sustainably in arid zones. However, it faces numerous obstacles linked to climatic…
To promote the cereal, the European Union is funding an international research project, entitled FONIO, to improve the competitiveness of the fonio commodity…
Biological pest control has much promise as an alternative to chemical pesticides. However, supplying natural predators of key insect pests is difficult and…
The textbooks tell us namely that there are two types of nitrifying bacteria which account for all the oxidisation of ammonia (NH3) into nitrite (NO2) and…
Such cheeses are representative of a traditional production process using raw milk and rennet. Its microbiological richness is higher than that of…
Brown fat plays an important role in newborn mammals, including our own children, since this tissue helps the newborn to maintain its body temperature by…
With Australian help, Indian farmers are fighting back against the world’s worst agricultural pest—the cotton bollworm—which costs $5 billion a year worldwide.The farmers are reducing the use of insecticides by about a half, while increasing crop yields by 11 per cent and profitability by 75 per cent….
An updated analysis by the European Commission, through its advanced crop yield forecasting system, shows that the particularly hot weather in July has…
The discovery allows for development of new rice varieties that can withstand flooding, thus overcoming one of agriculture's oldest challenges and offering…
Dr Andrew Watts from the University of Bath (UK) and Dr Jennifer McKimm-Breschkin from CSIRO (Australia) have been awarded over £408,000 from the Medical…
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