News tagged with barley
This One's For You: ISS Space Barley Beer
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Critics of the Space Program can utter a sigh of relief. Finally, an innovation with a good suds head on it. A colloborative effort between the Russian Academy of Science, Okayama University ...
CO2 increase in the atmosphere augments tolerance of barley to salinity
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2008 |
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In future, climate change will bring an increase in salty surfaces on the Earth and in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, this higher CO2 has some positive effects on the physiology of barley plants and ...
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Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 07, 2009 |
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A Japanese brewer has come up with a beer that's truly out of this world -- one made with barley grown from a line of seeds that once orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station.
Rot-resistant wheat could save farmers millions
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have identified wheat and barley lines resistant to Crown Rot - a disease that costs Australian wheat and barley farmers $79 million in lost yield every year.
New vegetarian food with several benefits
May 28, 2008 |
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A new vegetarian food that boosts the uptake of iron and offers a good set of proteins. This could be the result of a doctoral dissertation by Charlotte Eklund-Jonsson at the Department of Food Science, Chalmers University ...
DNA of ancient lost barley could help modern crops cope with water stress
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have recovered significant DNA information from a lost form of ancient barley that triumphed for over 3000 years seeing off: 5 changes in civilisation, ...
Japanese plan to brew 'space beer'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 28, 2008 |
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A Japanese brewery Tuesday said it was planning the first "space beer," using offspring of barley once stored at the International Space Station.
Australian scientists identify crucial barley gene
Nov 29, 2007 |
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Adelaide scientists have identified the major gene responsible for boron toxicity tolerance in barley, allowing breeders to select with 100% accuracy barley varieties that are tolerant to boron. The findings have today been ...
Growing crops to cope with climate change
Jan 19, 2006 |
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Scientists at a British plant science center say they've found a gene that might help develop crops better able to cope with the changing world climate.
Gene guards grain-producing grasses so people and animals can eat
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Feb 01, 2008 |
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Purdue University and USDA-Agricultural Research Service scientists have discovered that a type of gene in grain-producing plants halts infection by a disease-causing fungus that can destroy crops vital for ...
Newly Cloned Gene Key to More Adaptable Wheat Varieties
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Dec 05, 2006 |
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In a research discovery that has practical implications for improving wheat varieties, a team of scientists at the University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have cloned a gene that controls the ...
Scientists discover how crops use the length of the day to decide when to flower
Nov 14, 2005 |
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC) [1] in Norwich, UK, report today a breakthrough in understanding how crop plants use daylength to ensure they flower at the right time of year. In an article published in the international ...
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