New fumigant to replace gas that damages ozone layer
...ironmentally better, EDN is also more effective in penetrating soil and timber and more effective than methyl bromide in killing unwanted insects, moulds, bacteria and nematodes," says Dr Daly. "This provides CSIRO and BOC with a timely opportunity to create a multimillion dollar market for this new fumigant." ...Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
...o changes in sea temperatures, the amount of light penetrating the oceans and nutrients. "Oceanographers thought we understood how diatoms use nitrogen, but we discovered they have a urea cycle, something no one ever suspected," Armbrust says. A urea cycle is a nitrogen waste pathway found in animals and has ne...