Plant health scientists issue statement in support of biotechnology
...minimizing adverse environmental impacts of modern agriculture practices. The statement also calls for placing consideration of risks associated with plant disease management through biotechnology in perspective with other disease management approaches, including social, economic, and environmental issues and co...Terrorist threats to agriculture studied
...s A&M makes sense because of its strong history in agriculture and engineering research, its information delivery capabilities with Texas Cooperative Extension agents located in every county, and the state's long Mexican border which provides enormous potential for terrorist crossings, according to Clarke. He s...California gnatcatcher: Umbrella species failure?
...stal sage scrub and more than 85% has been lost to agriculture and urban development, making it among the most endangered habitat types in the U.S. This habitat is a global hotspot of species found nowhere else and nearly 100 species are at-risk. In San Diego County, efforts to protect coastal sage scrub have us...Purple potato boost for organic food industry
... Carlo Leifert (pictured), professor of ecological agriculture at the University. A potato which can be grown commercially without using chemicals would be an important breakthrough for the organic movement worldwide. The tiny lesions on the leaves are particularly encouraging because they show that the blight ...UC Davis' first cloned calf born, succumbs three days later
...e studying cloning in hopes that it can be used in agriculture to produce many copies of animals that have valuable qualities -- such as cows whose milk is more nutritious or better for processing dairy foods. Cloning also could be used to genetically engineer cows and sheep that can produce pharmaceuticals in t...Plant diseases plague world trade
...s overall trading environment for those working in agriculture and plant health management. It may sound like a huge undertaking to try and get the worlds major countries to reexamine their practices, but most are motivated. They know that in order to feed their growing populations and trade internationally, the......and society in the region. With the prevalence of agriculture and ranching within the Great Plains, many residents rely on the natural resources of the region to make a living. Alan Covich of Colorado State University will address, "Climate change and implications for the recovery of greenback cutthroat trout...Genetically engineered tomato plant grows in salty water
... innovation will have significant implications for agriculture worldwide," said Eduardo Blumwald, who led the research team that discovered the salt-tolerance gene. The research, much of which was done at the University of Toronto, continues in the UC Davis Department of Pomology. The most recent findings by Blu...Scientists map the complete genome of an important agricultural bacterium
...t time-consuming part of the effort." Sustainable agriculture Long and her colleagues say that the map of the S....iotic bacterial species."Many important plants, in agriculture and in natural ecosystems, are legumes," Long observes, "and many of them are infected by specific R...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
... which is about 10 times the average for intensive agriculture in industrialized countries. Chemical inputs account for 27 percent of the production cost of export bananas. Agricultural chemicals used on bananas for diseases and pests have harmed the health of plantation workers and the environment. "If we ...Scientistis say 'business-as-usual' is not an option with global change
... fixed synthetically and applied as fertilizers in agriculture than is fixed naturally in all terrestrial ecosystems. The concentrations of several climatically important greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane have substantially increased in the atmosphere; About 22% of recognized marine fisheries...World land database charts a troubling course
...largest human influence on the global landscape is agriculture with 12 percent of the global land surface -- an a.... Moreover, in some parts of the world intensive agriculture is exhausting the land, permanently removing acreage from production and the natural resource base. ..."Smart" fertilizer improves plant growth, prevents pollution from run off
...Sciences. The inventors say that, besides uses in agriculture and floriculture, the new fertilizer may be useful for stadium fields and golf courses as well. Lynch explains that, in traditional fertilizer systems, the amount of nutrient available to the plant is large immediately after application and decli...UCSD researchers decipher molecular "code" capable of controlling plant water loss during droughts
... loss during droughts. "Much of the land used for agriculture is not irrigated because water is either unavailable or too expensive," says Julian I. Schroeder, a professor of biology at UCSD who headed the research team. "So if crops can be engineered to respond to droughts by more rapidly and effectively closi...Biologists: Cell nucleus surface more complicated than expected
... how gravity affects plant growth is important for agriculture and for future manned space flights, which will require plants to provide food, cleanse water, and turn carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen....Shift from forest to crops lowers temperatures
... not exist for theU.S. Midwest 150 years ago, when agriculture began to deforest theregion, Bonan relied on a dir...s was much smaller than it is today. Since1940, as agriculture continued to spread across the Midwest andnortheastern farm lands returned to forests, the temperatu...New U. of Colorado research may reduce renewable fuel costs
...established biofuels industry will strengthen U.S. agriculture and reduce our countrys dependence on foreign oil." Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, is a clean-burning fuel that is used as a gasoline additive in some states like Colorado during the high-pollution months in winter, said Danna. In Brazil, eth...... 2001 Two of the worlds leading environmental and agriculture groups today report that almost half of the worlds...vation Union (IUCN) and the Washington, D.C.-based agriculture organization Future Harvest are called "alarming" by the researchers. Given that clearing and using...First experiments from NASA Commercial Space Centers get started on International Space Station
...ASTROCULTURE -- will allow companies interested in agriculture and agribusiness to conduct long-term plant research. Starting with Space Station Expedition Two, industry will be able to grow plants in space over an entire life cycle - from seeds to plants to seeds. For the Expedition Two experiment, scientists w...Researchers prove past cooling trend caused by move from forests to agriculture
...nited States as a result of change from forests to agriculture is up to a 2-degree Fahrenheit cooling," Caldeira said. "So, when we talk about global warming, we can no longer take for granted that this global warming is starting from some natural climate state, undisturbed by human activities."...