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Advance toward producing biofuels without stressing global food supply

Scientists in California are reporting use of a first-of-its-kind approach to craft genetically engineered microbes with the much-sought ability to transform switchgrass, corn cobs, and other organic materials ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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5-10 percent corn yield jump using erosion-slowing cover crops shown in new study

The most recent annual results from a four-year Iowa State University study on using cover crops between rows of corn reveals that higher yields – by as much as 10 percent – are possible using the ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Good parents are predictable -- at least when it comes to corn

In order to breed new varieties of corn with a higher yield faster than ever before, researchers at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, and other institutions are relying on a trick: early selection of the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Forage know-how gives Wisconsin farmers an edge in growing biomass

Wisconsin farmers have been growing biomass for generations, says Kevin Shinners. They just have a different name for it.

Biology / Biotechnology

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AgriLife Research project shows maximum irrigation and plant populations not necessary for corn

Corn research studies conducted at the North Plains Research Field near Etter are showing that maximum irrigation and high plant populations don’t always produce the most economical or water-use efficient ...

Biology / Other

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green gasoline comes closer to fueling your car

The backbone of our energy infrastructure is carbon-based fuel. In the form of oil, coal and natural gas, carbon compounds run our cars, heat our homes and cook our food. For reasons of energy security and ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Ecologically friendly, industrial foams from renewable resources

A method to use paper mill waste to produce ecologically friendly, industrial foams from renewable resources has been developed by a graduate student in agriculture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New 'corn atlas' shows which genes are active during each stage of plant growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as a road atlas helps travelers find their way, a new corn atlas will help plant scientists navigate vast amounts of gene expression data from the corn plant, as described in the May 10 issue of The Pl ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The evolution of ethanol: Promising new research goes beyond corn

Fueling up your car with ethanol produced from blue-green algae may sound far-fetched. But Bill Gibbons, a professor and researcher in SDSU’s Department of Biology and Microbiology, says it is close to reality – ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Insecticides from genetically modified corn present in adjacent streams

In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cary Institute aquatic ecologist Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall and colleagues report that streams throughout the Midwestern Corn B ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast


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