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A crop is the annual or season's yield of any plant that is grown in significant quantities to be harvested as food, as livestock fodder, fuel, or for any other economic purpose. This category includes crop species as well as agricultural techniques related to cropping.

There are many types of crops that are used for industrial purposes. For example, crops are grown and harvested for the sole purpose of making profit and feeding people, as they are grown in large amounts in a certain area suitable for growing crops.

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Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

An Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe to self-destruct, making the recovery ...





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Fungus-on-Fungus Fight Could Benefit Chickpeas

Fungus-on-Fungus Fight Could Benefit Chickpeas

Biology / Ecology

created 8 hours ago | 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 ...



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