News tagged with crop sequences


Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

There is growing interest in using crop residues as the feedstock of choice for the production of cellulosic-based ethanol because of the more favorable energy output relative to grain-based ethanol. This would also help ...





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Researcher develop new technique for modifying plant genes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Massachusetts General Hospital have used a genome engineering tool they developed to make a model crop plant herbicide-resistant without significant changes to its DNA.


Study of alternate bearing presents recommendations for citrus growers

Study of alternate bearing presents recommendations for citrus growers

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alternate bearing (also called biennial or uneven bearing) is the tendency of fruit trees to produce a heavy crop one year (called "on-crop") followed by a light crop or no crop the following "off-crop" year. ...


Squeezing More Crop Out of Each Drop of Water

Squeezing More Crop Out of Each Drop of Water

Biology / Other

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies in China and Colorado by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have revealed some interesting tactics on how to irrigate with limited water, based on a crop’s ...


Biologists Develop Large Gene Dataset for Rice Plant

Biologists Develop Large Gene Dataset for Rice Plant

Biology /

created Mar 13, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists have reported development of a large dataset of gene sequences in rice. The information will lead to an increased understanding of how genes work in rice, an essential food for much of the world's ...


Australian researchers first in the world to solve the genetic code of canola

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, the genetic code of canola was a mystery. Australian researcher Dr David Edwards, in collaboration with Bayer CropScience and Keygene N.V., is the first in the world to have solved the code, ...


Expanded version of Phytozome.net released

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ...


Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders ...


Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to create the largest HIV evolutionary tree

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory's role in the international Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) consortium, researchers are using the Roadrunner supercomputer to analyze vast quantities of genetic sequences ...


Fungus-on-Fungus Fight Could Benefit Chickpeas

Fungus-on-Fungus Fight Could Benefit Chickpeas

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fungus Ascochyta rabiei threatens chickpea crops the world over. But now this blight-causing pathogen could meet its match in Aureobasidium pullulans, a rival fungus that Agricultural ...


Sequencing thousand and one genomes

Sequencing thousand and one genomes

Biology /

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, reported the completion of the first genomes of wild strains of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. ...



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