the leading producer of white maize in the country but the hot and humid climate favors the proliferation of all kinds of pests.
"If 22 million tons of maize are produced in Mexico, we are talking about 88 million pills;
therefore necessary for the production of gibberellins--a mechanism that is highly relevant to the growth and development of plants,"says Poppenberger, Professor for the Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops.
these new crop varieties increased yields fivefold, preventing famines in Mexico and later China. Arraywhereas external application of gibberellins has been utilized in agriculture for several decades
for example, to produce larger fruits or to obtain seedless fruits like grapes or tangerines, brassinosteroids have not been used in this manner.
and production of crop plants,"says Brigitte Poppenberger r
#How traumatic memories hide in the brain, and how to retrieve them At first, hidden memories that can't be accessed consciously may protect the individual from the emotional pain of recalling the event.
and also allows them to capture higher crop prices during the dry season, "said the trial's co-primary investigator, Craig R. Cohen, MD, MPH, UCSF professor in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive health in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences.
"Shamba Maisha is the first trial to link agriculture with HIV outcomes, "Cohen said.""The intervention is unique in that it is sustainable,
and irrigation for agriculture to the prevention of icing and frosting on aircraft wings.""This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces,
Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
Phosphonates are an abundant and diverse class of natural signaling molecules that have already proved useful to medicine and agriculture
Honeycomb of nanomagnets The magnets are only 63 nanometres long and shaped roughly like grains of rice.
The researchers used a highly advanced technique to place 1 billion of these tiny grains on a flat substrate to form a large-scale honeycomb pattern.
which could have applications such as spraying on crops or disinfecting food, as well as treating human disease.
which Jin-Soo Kim points out,"paves the way for the widespread use of RNA-guided genome editing in plant biotechnology and agriculture."
Large agribusiness companies have been able to afford the time and money necessary to create seeds for genetically modified food,
and create heartier crops in foods like tomatoes and lettuce. The application of the Cas9 RNP gene editing technique could be the next step in ending food shortages s
Finally, Brazilian beef and soybean production were rising during much of the same time when deforestation was falling.
the government used its controls of state banks to deter agriculture and logging use of forests.
Mato grosso, for example, is a far bigger soybean producer than the other two states. The other is that there are differences in policy
leaves harvest solar energy and carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of molecular products that form biomass,
nanowires harvest solar energy and deliver electrons to bacteria, where carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of a variety of targeted, value-added chemical products.
and is a $6 billion crop in the United states. here is untapped a vast reservoir of genes in wild cotton plants that could offer us stronger
Borage family flowers (Echium angustifolium) as seen in human vision (left) and honeybee vision (right. To humans the flowers are a fairly uniform purple,
The researchers have provided specific data on camera settings for commonly studied animals, such as humans, blue tits, peafowl, honey bees, ferrets and some fish.
Instead, silicon nanopillars are arranged precisely into a honeycomb pattern to create a etasurfacethat can control the paths and properties of passing light waves.
and heat waves. eat waves can kill people and crops while worsening air quality, and droughts exacerbate those serious impacts,
#Breeding higher yielding crops by increasing sugar import into seeds Once a mother plant releases its embryos to the outside world,
A team of scientists led by Carnegie Wolf Frommer has discovered now that a sugar-transport protein in maize
crop plants have evolved larger backpacks to ensure continued utility to humans. Without knowing which gene variants were contributing useful properties,
which happened with all of our crop plants as wild plants were converted into more and more useful and nutritious versions.
The ancestors of the modern maize planted today across large acreages in the U s . and worldwide had much smaller endosperms.
more sugar-filled seeds such as maize kernels were more attractive to human cultivators, due to their nutritive value and their ability to produce sturdier seedlings.
Frommer team analyzed maize genes involved in sugar-related processes to find ones that were seed urned onduring development.
which encodes a sugar transporter protein in maize, was shown to be expressed specifically in the maize seed by the group of Prem Chourey at University of Florida,
and had evidence of selection due to domestication. The evidence that the SWEET4C gene was selected during domestication was discovered by the team of Jeff Ross-Ibarra at UC Davis,
while comparing SWEET4 sequences from modern maize against its wild ancestor Teosinte. If variation of the sequence of a specific gene is reduced greatly in modern versions
Gratifyingly, the importance of the study goes beyond maize yield. The authors found that the corresponding gene in rice was also critical for seed filling
and breeders. ur work indicates that SWEET4 could be a promising target for engineering varieties of maize,
rice and other crops, said Bing Yang from Iowa State university, whose team performed all the rice studies.
based in Foothill Ranch, California, said in early August that it has succeeded in keeping a high-energy plasma stable for five millisecondsuch less than the blink of an eye,
The depth of the openings varies in each slice of honeycomb, meaning sound passing over each section has a unique pattern. he cavities behave like soda bottles
which resembles a crushed honeycomb. The shoes are the first illustration of a new method of weaving in three dimensions created by Nigerian American industrial designer Oluwaseyi Sosanya.
#Weather history time machine created During the 1930s North america endured the Dust bowl a prolonged era of dryness that withered crops
flows in agriculture A quantitative model for measuring sustainability in the Finnish agricultural sector has been developed in a new thesis. The new model challenges the OECD method which is used currently
Improvements for OECD nutrient balance modelcurrently the static nutrient balance approach of OECD is used to assess nutrient emissions from agriculture.
The stocks and outflows from the stock calculated using the dynamic model could be utilized in sustainability assessment as indicators of environmental pressure from agriculture.
Our dynamic approach would provide better estimations of the nutrient leaching from agriculture to environment than the conventional method of OECD. Story Source:
and the U s. Microsporidia are a large group of extreme parasites that invade humans and animals and cost great damage for health care systems and in agriculture;
Among the grasslands studied the team found monoculture grasses supported fewer birds and fewer bird species than grasslands with a mix of grass types and other kinds of vegetation like wildflowers...
This year's spring pulse held less than 1 percent of the volume of the Colorado's annual spring floods before the construction of ten major dams and diversions to municipalities, industry, and agriculture.
#An innovative way to increase flower, seed and fruit production A scientist from UPM has developed a method to enhance crop yield by the contact of roots aerial parts or even the substratum of the plant fungus'Colletotrichum tofieldiae'.
Within the agriculture sector the Colletotrichum fungi are well known because they have a large amount of crop pathogen.
However this species has other subspecies that does not harm their host plants and they actually have many benefits.
This method can help increase crop yields its application is similar to use a fertilizer but having better results
Thus its application in agriculture horticulture forestry plants ornamental plants or any other plant with commercial interest would represent a significant environmental and economic saving.
The biochar has a one-two punch in that it can be used to both increase crop yields
#Horticulture: Sensor-based irrigation systems show potential to increase greenhouse profitability Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators.
The scientists found that controlling irrigation using data from moisture sensors led to substantial reductions in both production time and crop losses.
"Human activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management and industrial processes are increasing the amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.
such as the ranches in New mexico where she tested her system at full scale, poor access to water pipelines often leads to a heavy reliance on well water.
But some ranchers find that even their livestock won tolerate the saltiness of this water. t useful to install a small-scale desalination system where people are
Last week, at the Symposia on VLSI Technology And circuits, MIT researchers presented a new power converter chip that can harvest more than 80 percent of the energy trickling into it,
for its Spanish initials) to promote automation in Argentine greenhouse agrobusiness. Designed to apply pesticides in greenhouses,
In an economy as heavily dependent on agriculture as Argentina's, boosting production and protecting workers are vitally important.
#Where the bio-rubber meets the road My posts about biotechnology as it relates to agriculture tend to draw impassioned naysayers,
is piloting an environmental monitoring system that helps agribusiness concerns be smarter about how much water they use.
Information that is collected includes temperature, humidity, and soil nutrients. The solution was developed by Bulut Ersavas, a former electronics engineer with IBM and Sun who got the idea for a water-monitoring system
such as the nature of the soil, the nature of the crop involved or weather. The system is currently being tested at Norcal Harvesting,
vice president of business development for Climateminder, said the company will target its technology at farms in prime California agribusiness districts such as Oxnard, Salinas and Watsonville.
But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road, it starts breaking down like a seed husk within three months to a year.
You really have to put them in your garden, in the environment for them to start biodegrading.
Elevated radiation levels widespread in eastern Japan Test show Japanese child exposed to radiation Rice crops threatened by radiation Radioactive tuna found in Pacific ocean Hydrofracking drives new water treatment solutions
Palm oil-105g Soybean-103g Rapeseed-95g Sunflower-86g Palm oil with methane capture-83g Wheat (process fuel not specified)- 64g Wheat (as process fuel natural gas used in CHP)- 47g
Corn (Maize)- 43g Sugar cane-36g Sugar beet-34g Wheat (straw as process fuel in CHP plants)- 35g 2g Ethanol (land-using)- 32g 2g Biodiesel (land-using)- 21g 2g Ethanol
The top biodiesel crops--palm soybean, and rapeseed oil--are all the least energy efficient. However, they are also the cheapest to produce,
which is why they reign at the moment. Photo: Achmad Rabin Taim/Flickr via Nature News s
whose recent barrage of diversity reports have revealed their tendencies toward monoculture, for instance. Another key item that was revealed by journalists reporting on the Sony leak was that of Hollywood war against Google,
and keeps the negotiation within Amazon walled garden rather than being taken offline, where Amazon would get no commission,
explains Matt Burton, founder of Orchard. Orchard, a Canaan portfolio company launched last year to simplify online direct lending at scale,
and currently powers seven investment platforms, including Lending Club, Prosper, and Ondeck. Burton says there are 450 more currently on their wait list. his is an area that going to continue to see a lot of innovation and disruption for the next few years minimum,
Farmers are increasingly using drones to monitor crop health and gauge growth patterns. This is a job well-suited to drones,
and hardware that automatically measures the height of crops and detect weeds, and they can even count plants.
via the first crop of Homekit-enabled accessories from third-party manufacturers. This means youl soon be able to get your hands on a range of products for the connected home that work with Siri on your ios device,
and this crop of initial partners delivers that. It interesting to see Apple announce this ahead of WWDC
the readings it takes are more scientifically rigorous than those achieved by the current crop of Android Wear-powered devices,
a reminder that the region was prized once land for orchards. A handful of new two-story concrete buildings surround a courtyard holding a smattering of enthusiastic administrators and a few teachers.
Researchers have completed the second of three major steps needed to turbocharge photosynthesis in crops such as wheat
Researchers at Cornell University and Rothamsted Research in the United kingdom successfully transplanted genes from a type of bacteria-called cyanobacteria-into tobacco plants
But 75 percent of the world's crops (known as C3 plants) use a slower and less efficient form of photosynthesis. Researchers have been attempting for a long time to change some C3 plants-including wheat rice and potatoes-into C4 plants.
However Price says there are genetic workarounds that could quickly make it possible in a wider range of crops s
#A Nimble-Wheeled Farm Robot Goes to Work in Minnesota This summer a Minnesota startup began deploying an autonomous robot that rolls between corn plants spraying crop fertilizer.
The company is also testing using them for planting seed on cornfields for fall crops, called cover crops,
If there s one area where resource optimization is needed more urgently than any other it s agriculture Projections call for the Earth s population to exceed nine billion by 2050 up by about two billion from today.
because it is sprayed heavily on crops that had themselves been engineered genetically to resist the spray.
Also, the technology could be used to create weapons that destroy agricultural crops or create super pests.
So an important question is how to minimize the energy it takes to grow these crops.
Micha Benoliel CEO and cofounder of startup Open Garden which made Firechat says the app shows how smartphones can be set free from cellular networks.
However Open Garden s forthcoming software will extend the feature so that data can hop between two iphones out of range of one another via intermediary devices.
For example messages sent using Firechat to nearby devices don t pass through any systems operated by either Open Garden
Open Garden s main product is an app that allows Android devices to share their Internet connections (see Could You Spare Some Internet access?.
normally a small transparent plate resembling a honeycomb with 96 tiny wells. Specific antibodies are placed then into each well,
ELISA testing is performed usually with little honeycomb shaped plates that have 96 tiny wells embedded in them.
We may be able to design materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy, or manipulate light for telecommunications applications,
a single layer of carbon atoms is arranged in the form of a honeycomb structure. Its highly versatile nature makes it applicable for use in numerous electronics gadgets such as wearables, flexible displays and other sophisticated electronic devices."
#Saturas Successfully Conducts Field trials of Embedded Stem Water Sensor The field tests were conducted on peach and citrus trees at the Hula Valley Orchards Experimental Farm.
Today most farmers typically overwater crops by up to 20%just to be on the safe side.
Optimal irrigation can improve quality and quantity of crops and increase farmers incomes and profitability.
SWP is recognized a scientifically highly accurate parameter for determining water status in crops but today SWP can only be measured in a labor-intensive procedure.
The Saturas sensor provides accurate information for optimized irrigation to reduce water consumption with no stress to the plants and increases fruit production and quality.
The Saturas sensing system tailors irrigation to the crop's real-time water needs resulting in more efficient water use
#New MIT Power Converter Chip Harvests More than 80%of Energy Realizing that vision, however, will require extremely low-power sensors that can run for months without battery changes or, even better,
Last week, at the Symposia on VLSI Technology And circuits, MIT researchers presented a new power converter chip that can harvest more than 80 percent of the energy trickling into it,
The information companies harvest can become new products that they sell or can be combined with how they market other new products.
coupled with the fire destroying their oil palm crops, had left them penniless and hungry. Until that moment, he had thought mostly of peat blazes as orest fires,
Tarsedi told me that oil palm is the crop of choice for Bungaraya farmers because it is more valuable than paddy rice.
but it requires a poppy harvest to manufacture. Brewed morphine could, eventually, be easier to produce.
#Sweet source for aviation biofuel Researchers have identified a new way to produce aviation fuel from sugarcane biomass that could deliver substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
The source crops could be grown on marginal land, avoiding displacing food production, the team observed. They added the development of renewable liquid fuels was critical to reduce global reliance on petroleum
Biofuel sweetspot"We've identified a new route of chemistry with its source from sugars in sugarcane plus some of the so-called waste material called bagasse"
Prof Bell acknowledged that certain crops as feedstock for the sugar-derived process would be problematic:"
"If, for example, we were to use sugar beet instead of sugarcane then there would be a potential conflict over fuel versus food."
"By using sugarcane, particularly in Brazil, on land that is not used for agriculture, we escape that conundrum."
"But we are talking about the Amazon basin, and one of the issues there is that if you cleared the land of scrubs
and hoped in time it would improve his vision sufficiently to help him with day-to-day tasks like gardening and shopping.
and although I was a keen gardener, I can't tell the weeds from the flowers anymore."
said Warren Ruder, an assistant professor of biological systems engineering in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering."
In agriculture, bacteria-robot model systems could enable robust studies that explore the interactions between soil bacteria and livestock.
leishmaniasis is common in people who work in agriculture and forestry, said lead author Vanessa Adaui, Ph d,
Traditional ELISA testing is performed with small transparent plates that resemble honeycombs, typically with 96 tiny wells. Samples are placed in the wells first,
John Burnett writes for West Hawaii Today that Iselle damage to Big Island ag crops is estimated at $53 million.
and State departments of Agriculture and state Board of Agriculture Chairman Scott Enright met Monday with farmers.
of course, but the damage is extremely high. t takes about a year from the time you plant to the time you start to harvest.
They got their crops to where they were ready to pick. The plants are snapped off, not too high off the ground,
and theye banking everything on two years of harvest. And everything looked good until the wind came through.
because it is grown at a higher elevation than the papaya crop. Ross Sibucao, president of Hawaii Papaya Industry Association, said early Tuesday afternoon the association board was about to hold an emergency meeting.
and the rain also damaged the company macadamia nut crop. Wee lost just over 2, 000 trees,
the most beautiful trees Hawaii has seen ever. hat means I lost more 22 percent of my trees in that orchard.
newest orchard in the state of Hawaii, and Ed Olson effort at revitalizing the macadamia nut industry for the future by planting new orchards. n our older orchard,
which cover about 425 acres, we lost about 800 trees, Cross added. heye older trees;
I only lost about 3 to 4 percent in those older orchards. Anthurium and ornamental flower growers in East Hawaii are also feeling Iselle effects,
He said three of his four 5-acre greenhouses in Panaewa sustained roof damage which will ultimately have an effect on his crops.
and ranchers can get accurate information on the process we can use to follow to get some help for our farmers and ranchers. n
#Biodiesel production from Sugarcane A multi-institutional team led by plant biology professor Stephen P. Long from the University of Illinois reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent
and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. These are the first steps in a bigger initiative that will turn sugarcane
and sorghum two of the most productive crop plants known into even more productive oil-generating plants.
The team presented its latest findings to the U s. Department of energy's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D c. in February this year.
But soybean isnt productive enough to meet the nations need for renewable diesel fuels Long said.
and mustard) and later with sugarcane the team introduced genes that boost natural oil production in the plant.
They increased oil production in sugarcane stems to about 1. 5 percent. The team hopes to increase the oil content of sugarcane stems to about 20 percent he said.
Using genetic engineering the researchers increased photosynthetic efficiency in sugarcane and sorghum by 30 percent Long said.
And to boost cold tolerance researchers are crossing sugarcane with Miscanthus a related perennial grass that can grow as far north as Canada.
The new hybrid is more cold-tolerant than sugarcane but further crosses are needed to restore the other attributes of sugarcane
while preserving its cold-tolerance Long said. Ultimately the team hopes to integrate all of these new attributes into sugarcane he said.
The research team led by the University of Illinois includes scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory the University of Florida and the University of Nebraska.
Long is an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois s
Oilseed crops commercialized by Agrisoma were used as a feedstock and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel.
The White house released its National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey bees and Other Pollinators, calling for the restoration or enhancement of 7 million acres of land for pollinators over the next five years through federal actions and public/private partnerships.
Other goals of the strategy are to reduce honey bee colony losses during the winter months to no more than 15 percent within 10 years,
when commercial honeybees are pollinating their crops. BIO is a member of Croplife America (CLA),
a crop protection association that represents the companies that develop, manufacture, formulate and distribute crop protection chemicals
and plant science solutions for agriculture and pest management in the United states. CLA welcomed today release of the White house National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey bees and Other Pollinators.
In their statement they commended the White house Pollinator Task force for issuing a strategy that has pronged a multi
Many of BIO Food & Agriculture Section members are doing their part to help improve pollinator health
You can find here information on how Monsanto is helping the honey bees keep on buzzinand the work the company is doing to restore habitats for the monarch butterfly.
How Innovation is Transforming Agriculture Data analysis and computational technologies are giving farmers the ability to monitor their land better,
to make decisions that can lower costs and increase crop yields, and allow them to access information quickly through their smartphones.
Technology is not only helping farmers grow their crops but also aid in monitoring the health of their livestock.
But now, every 15 minutes, readings from the 25 sensors are fed into a network of solar-powered information-gathering stations scattered through the orchard.
& Farm Crops Created At The Same Timeprofiles Japanese farmer Makoto Takazawa farmland in Chiba Prefecture,
and crops. e has nearly 350 kw of solar panels mounted on poles 3 meters above ground
and has grown crops like cabbages, eggplants, cucumber, taro, peanuts and yams underneath them. Both the solar panels and the food-bearing plants receive enough sunlight to be productive.
many of the crops grown in the valley are high-value products that are lucrative,
and the region conservative bent leads farmers and ranchers to stick to the crops, trees, and animals they know.
and then recycled so local farmers can use it to water their crops. The by-product that remains at the end of the process,
and agriculture--for controlled delivery and release but this is one of the first demonstrations of this approach for controlled capture says Jennifer A. Lewis the Hansj rg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard School of engineering
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
others argue they are a threat to bird life and a noisy blight on the landscape.
But researchers discovered weak evidence that medical marijuana was associated with improvements in nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy
'Since medical marijuana is not a lifesaving intervention, it may be prudent to wait before widely adopting its use until high-quality evidence is available to guide the development of a rational approval process,
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