News tagged with seed composition
Food security: It starts with seed
With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency ...
May 04, 2009 |
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Trial by fire: A landscape-scale experiment in restoring Ozark glades
A giant experiment is under way at the Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' 2,000-acre outdoor laboratory for ecosystem studies.
Jan 28, 2012 |
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Study offers insight into delicate biochemical balance required for plant growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an ongoing effort to understand how modifying plant cell walls might affect the production of biomass and its breakdown for use in biofuels, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
Jan 16, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 15, 2012 |
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Topography played key role in Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers say
When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Researchers make less carcinogenic cigarette
(Medical Xpress) -- Though emphasizing that quitting is the best remedy to combat health problems for smokers, Cornell researchers have found a way to make cigarettes less toxic.
Jan 03, 2012 |
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Cloud droplets, ready for prime time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some make the cut, some don't. Like auditions for the school play, scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Goethe-University Frankfurt were looking for promising atmospheric ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 28, 2011 |
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Chu: New materials could be transformative
In a talk rich with historical examples, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu made a strong case Wednesday that the right policies — and concerted efforts by the nation’s engineers and scientists — could once ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Body rebuilding: Researchers regenerate muscle in mice
A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening the door ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Woods, yes, but as before, no
Though the transformation of farm fields into forests over the past century amounts to a New England conservation victory, a Harvard forest expert said Thursday that turning back the environmental clock and ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Self-replication process holds promise for production of new materials
New York University scientists have developed artificial structures that can self-replicate, a process that has the potential to yield new types of materials. The work, conducted by researchers in NYU's Departments of Chemistry ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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