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It's not easy being green: Scientists grow understanding of how photosynthesis is regulated

The seeds sprouting in your spring garden may still be struggling to reach the sun. If so, they are consuming a finite energy pack contained within each seed. Once those resources are depleted, the plant cell ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Afla-Guard also protects corn crops

Afla-Guard®, a biological control used to thwart the growth of fungi on peanuts, can be used on corn as well, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists who helped develop it.

Biology / Other

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cleaning the Chesapeake Bay from space

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pilot test of an innovative use of new remote sensing technologies to aid the Chesapeake Bay cleanup begins this year in Talbot County, Md., on the Bay's Eastern Shore.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Increasing 'Bad' Ozone Threatens Human and Plant Health

On July 6 this summer, Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality issued the region's first "unhealthy" air alert since 2008.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Flower-dwelling yeast licensed for use against scab disease

A beneficial yeast that tolerates fungicide may offer a "one-two punch" against Fusarium graminearum, the fungal culprit behind Fusarium head blight ("scab").

Biology / Other

created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists sequence genome of grass that can be a biofuel model crop

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute today announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers

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.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Beer Here

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beer is a simple act, but making beer is not. It starts out with genetics and tens of thousands of barley varieties and ends with a clear ambrosia that belies the time, effort and technology that ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Feed your crop, not the weeds

If you have weed problems in your cropping system, will adding nutrients just feed the weeds?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gluten-free diets help many

For 20 years, Maurie Ange of El Cerrito, Calif., suffered from chronic belly aches. A decade ago, she was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and told to exercise more and increase her fiber intake. But the pain, bloating ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 1


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