The honey bee Apis mellifera plays an important role for the pollination of fruit and vegetable plants, besides its significance for the production of honey…
The highest levels of biodiversity in the world are found in forests, but deforestation, forest degradation, and climate change are having a serious impact on…
Feeding the world’s burgeoning population is a major challenge for agricultural scientists and agribusinesses, who are busy developing higher-yielding crop…
Agricultural landscapes in Germany have lost much of their diversity being dominated by crops such as maize and rapeseed today. This trend has also had an…
The government-backed effort, known as the Grain-for-Green Program, has transformed 28 million hectares (69.2 million acres) of cropland and barren scrubland…
In ecology, monodominance is identified as a condition in which at least 60%, or often even 90% of trees in a natural forest belong to the same tree species….
However, economic losses could be limited to 0.3 percent of global GDP – depending on agricultural trade policies.
An international research team with participation of the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)/ Germany and the University of…
Providing the expanding population with healthy foodstuffs is an enormous challenge whose solution begins very early in the production chain. Besides familiar…
In order to introduce new flowering plants to market, breeders and growers need proven strategies for producing healthy, compact plants during times of highest…
Petroleum-based spills on turfgrass can occur during lawn care and maintenance, primarily as a result of equipment failure or improper refueling. When these…
In recent years, beekeepers have struggled to maintain healthy honey bee colonies throughout the northern hemisphere. In the first study to investigate the…
Land managers, forestry professionals and conservationists seek to predict how trees will grow so they can better manage existing forests and regrow forests…
According to the authors of a new study, transplant shock is very common in globe artichoke grown in semiarid regions of the United States; high air…
An international team of researchers has succeeded for the first time in sequencing the genome of Chalcolithic barley grains. This is the oldest plant genome…
Many car companies push test models to their limits at Nurburgring before selling them off the showroom floor. For scientists, standard laboratory conditions…
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