'he told Reuters. That could lead to agricultural production of drugs such as noscapine, a cough-suppressant that may also fight cancer,
#Nemo's Garden project is growing strawberries, beans, lettuce and herbs underwater They wouldn look out of place in a sci-fi film,
The farm, named Nemo Garden has been installed in the Bay of Noli, in Savona, Italy. he main target of this project is to create alternative sources of plant production in areas where environmental conditions make it extremely difficult to grow crops through conventional farming,
including lack of fresh water, fertile soils, and extreme temperature changes, said a spokesman for the project. e are trying to find an alternative and economically viable technology enabling efficient production.
A control centre on dry land allows the scientists to monitor the status of crops without having to dive down every day to tend to them. e have installed many webcams
efore when I was looking at a plant in the garden it was like a honeycomb in the centre of my eye.
I can now walk round the garden and see things. is system was turned on for the first time on July 1,
the Harvester, a machine that, in six to 24 hours, turns food matter into a high-nutrient liquid that can be converted to organic fertilizer.
Acceleration Partners, a marketing agency with 45 team members, emphasizes individual goal-setting to track productivity. e also use tools like Harvest for time tracking,
#Flexible nanogenerator harvests muscle movement to power mobile devices The consumer world is becoming powered by mobile devices,
In order to coax the graphene-boron honeycomb into exposing its hidden behaviors, some additional outside influence needs to be imposed.
When the graphene-boron honeycombs are stacked out of alignment, they create something known as a oire pattern
by means of a roll-on coating consisting of a honeycomb of electrodes (see bottom right image).
Elastic buckling honeycomb structures. Known officially as negative-stiffness honeycombs, these hexagonal cell structures are named
so because they are able to provide continued support from repeat impact events. Current traditional honeycomb structures can support an individual only once before breaking down
and deforming permanently due to plastic buckling. Elastic buckling honeycomb structures provide the materials needed so that a given item could stretch
or bend and protect a victim or item when necessary, but return to its normal shape afterward without any inward breakdown of its parts.
who first dabbled into cloaking before he stumbled upon negative stiffness honeycombs last year. In fact, Leiden University Phd student Bastiaan Florijn created a sponge-like object as a prop for the concept at the American Physical Society March Meeting,
#Farmlogs Is Now Able To Alert Farmers About Crop Threats Farm management software company Farmlogs is used by over 20%of the farms in the U s. with over $15 billion in crops under management.
Now Farmlogs has launched the only crop health monitoring service in the industry that can pinpoint the exact location in the part of the field that needs attention.
Farmlogs monitors crop health by utilizing multi-spectral satellite imagery to build performance baselines from over five years of field-specific crop health data.
The crop health is tracked throughout the season against the performance baseline to detect subtle cues
The crop health monitoring imagery utilized by Farmlogs shows information that is actionable and eliminates guesswork
As a gift to its users, Farmlogs is offering the crop monitoring feature for free this year.
because the agriculture technology (gtech space is thriving. For example, Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation for nearly $1 billion in 2013.
And agriculture technology companies received $2. 36 billion of investments across 264 deals last year alone
so it kills only those bugs that threaten crops and avoids collateral damage to beneficial insects.
whether an RNA-insecticide spray would be stable enough to use in agriculture. They matched double-stranded (ds) RNA to an actin gene in the Colorado potato beetle
Crop protection RNA, ribonucleic acid, is present in all living cells. Mainly, it acts as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins.
The idea for crop protection was born out of this technology. As part of the study, Scott and Keri San miguel put a film of ds RNA on plate glass
#Crop attack discovery lets team bounce back When disease-causing bacteria invade disease-resistant rice, a small protein produced by the bacteria betrays the invader.
Identification of the tiny protein, called Raxx, holds promise for developing more disease-resistant crop varieties and therapeutic treatments for blocking microbial infections in both plants and animals, say the researchers,
researchers discovered that the Raxx protein was present in at least eight species of the disease-causing Xanthamonas bacteria that are known to attack ricehe staple food for half of the world populations well as maize, cassava, sugar cane, tomatoes, peppers
, wheat, alfalfa, onions, banana, and citrus. ur research team is delighted to announce the discovery of the Raxx protein,
a new class of microbial signaling molecules, says Pamela Ronald, a professor of plant pathology at University of California, Davis,
In the long term, the researchers hope to use this information to develop new strategies to prevent infection in various crops.
and disease resistance for more than two decades and in 1995 announced that a gene called Xa21 confers resistance to the bacterial blight pathogen.
Bacterial blight, one of the worst bacterial plant diseases in the world, has been found in virtually every crop species including rice.
including long haul transportation and trucking, agriculture (tractors), mining and off-road vehicles, motorcycles, diesel trains, generators, container ships and aircraft, among others.
#"Nemo's Garden"grows terrestrial crops underwater The stand for the region of Liguria at the Milan 2015 Expo features a project as bizarre-sounding as it is intriguing:
an attempt to grow crops underwater, inside air-filled biospheres. It's part of an effort that could prove a low-cost,
lack of fertile land and adverse climate conditions around the world means we've seen several projects involving growing crops creatively,
and the crops are well out of the reach of parasites. The evaporating sea water condenses on the inner walls of the biosphere,
creating a high-humidity environment (up to 85 percent) that favors crop growth. All in all according to its proponents, the system is sustainable
The Nemo's Garden project started in 2012 and continued through the next two summers. The three (now five) underwater biospheres were anchored to the seafloor
Live streaming for the underwater garden project is available via Ustream, 24/7. Four cameras will monitor the stretch of sea containing the garden and the inside of the biggest biosphere.
Each week will also see a live underwater broadcast to describe the latest progress. The video below further illustrates the project.
Nemo's Garden via New Scientis e
#ADAMAAS smart glasses to assist elderly and disabled in everyday tasks We've seen various head-mounted wearables,
it is not likely to cause the same kind of ethical and practical problems that blight work on other forms of gene therapy.
Light technology is now an active area of research in energy, health and agriculture. First lighting the way In the late 1800s
in agriculture, more effective harvesting of solar energy and its conversion into heat via greenhouses could enable year-round production as well as access to crops not currently available in certain climates.
and long-endurance surveillance for agriculture, mapping and other applications,"Bill Fredericks, an aerospace engineer at the Langley Research center, said in a statement."
#New Honeycomb-Inspired Design Protects Against Impacts Conventional honeycomb structures are insular panels of repeating, often hexagonal-shaped cells in a range of sizes and configurations.
The shortcoming of conventional honeycombs is that they lose their full protective properties after only one impact due to plastic buckling of the material.
NS honeycombs, on the other hand, bounce back. The researchers devised a cell geometry capable of elastic buckling, giving NS honeycomb structures the resilience to recover their energy-absorbing shape and properties after impact.
which is like a honeycomb or chicken-wire-shaped lattice of carbon atoms. When these honeycomb structures are stacked on top of each other,
if they are out of alignment, they create a so-called moire pattern, which varies with rotation of the layers with respect to each other."
"While this honeycomb structure exists in graphite, a familiar bulk form of carbon, its special properties only show
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
produce and commercialise specialist chemicals to be used, in particular, in agriculture and pharmaceutical industry. The Institute publishes approximately 200 original research papers annually.
"If you have a microwave and honey or molasses, you can pretty much make these particles at home,
honey bees can see and respond to ultraviolet signals, and fireflies use flash communication systems, Yu adds. rgans evolved for perceiving
2015visible Light-sensitive Photocatalysts Used for Purification of Contaminated water in Iran June 30th, 2015food/Agriculture/Supplements Bacteria Cellulose,
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency. In addition, Yu envisions simply letting the resonator emit that energy in the form of infrared light toward the sky,
The process is followed then by high temperature activation annealing (about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius) to form a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, a typical microscopic structure of graphene.
the processing of the woolen fabric samples by using optimum amount of honeycomb nanocomposite such as N-Ag/Zno improves the biological, mechanical and hydrophilicity of the fabrics.
#Hematite're-growth'smoothes rough edges for clean energy harvest (Nanowerk News) Finding an efficient solar water splitting method to mine electron-rich hydrogen for clean
Water splitting combines sunlight and water in a chemical reaction in order to harvest clean hydrogen energy. By smoothing the surface of hematite,
"Carbon atoms in graphene sheets are arranged in a regularly repeating honeycomb-like latticea two-dimensional crystal. Like other crystals,
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 wont tolerate the saltiness of this water.
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
hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,
and to control the general condition of their crops. Nowadays Piedmont, in north western Italy, is an open air laboratory where companies
and specialized in the use of drones for agriculture: They contribute to the early detection of diseases that affect grapevines,
which carry small cameras able to take near infrared images of crops. Healthy plants are rich in chlorophyll a pigment that reflects infrared quite well:
noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing. Moreover, it improves sustainability
The legume is a presidium of Slow food, the global organisation that supports the principles of organic agriculture
The bean was lost almost a crop. About 25 years ago a farmer, named Mario Boggio, gave some kilos of Piattella to the University of Turins germplasm bank,
#Nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tires A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's rolling tire friction.
which are organized in a honeycomb-like structure. The molecules have an incredibly thin 1d-channel,
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency. In addition, Yu envisions simply letting the resonator emit that energy in the form of infrared light toward the sky,
The process is followed then by high temperature activation annealing (about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius) to form a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, a typical microscopic structure of graphene.
Then, they wrapped the Ag/Tio2 nanoparticles in sheets of reduced graphene oxide (RGO), a thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
reportedly harvests the electromagnetic radiation transferring to and from mobile phones and converts it into direct current (DC) electrical energy,
But now, the rare palm tree specimens, the secret garden and the turret-shaped hedges are a liability rather than a selling point.
the almond orchards have shriveled into dust, the flood of noncitizen immigrants is draining the state's revenues
and other conflicts and even more are harmed by activities such as development and agriculture. Some were destroyed before they were surveyed even
It's harder to think about how this technology could be used in agriculture. Countless acres of genetically engineered crops would need to be fed this manmade ingredient, from a crop duster or by some other means.
Scientists would also need to show that the synthetic protein component is safe to eat."
When a case crops up, the team rushes to scene andgives the vaccine to people who are close to the sick person those who are at high risk of getting the virus."So this can be the neighbors, the family, the coworkers,
Within graphene, benzene rings are fused to form a honeycomb structure. Sections of this structure, referred to as nanographenes or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS), play an integral role in organic electronics.
instead of the current crop that often just monitor the body's activity.""Wearables currently are centered mostly around monitoring
#Here's how to make carbon nanoparticles with honey and a microwave Carbon nanoparticles can be incredibly useful in the treatment of many types of disease,
using a process that involves plain old honey and a microwave. The resulting particles are less than 8 nanometres thick (a human hair is around 80,000-100,000 nanometres)
"If you have a microwave and honey or molasses, you can pretty much make these particles at home,
and preparation-has been designed to produce crops with the least amount of energy expenditure possible. The operators claim the hydroponics
and can produce crops all year round, but perhaps Growing Underground greatest asset when it comes to low-impact farming will be its location.
The depth of the facility now provides some much-needed insulation to help grow crops 52 weeks of the year
but it also provides the latest glimpse of how farming is moving into the 21st Century thanks to some pioneering high-tech agriculture ideas.
without the high Scientists have figured out how to separate the pain relieving qualities of medical marijuana from its psychological side-effects in an effort to offer people a new high-free option.
and thinks it could be the key to medical marijuana without the negative side effects.""For me, the ideal drug would be in one of two scenarios:
Hamilton Moses III M d. of the Alerion Institute and Alerion Advisors LLC North Garden Va. and Johns Hopkins School of medicine Baltimore and colleagues examined developments over the past two decades
The United nations Food and agriculture organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) revealed in December that the Ebola outbreak had left nearly half a million people in the three countries severely food insecure:
unless urgent measures are taken to significantly enhance access to food and safeguard crop and livestock production in these countries
FAO and WFP stated that the Ebola epidemic has caused a significant shock to the food
and agriculture sectors in the affected countries where two thirds of the population depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
Many farmers have abandoned their fields and harvests for fear of the disease. In Sierra leone for instance it is reported that up to 40%of farms were abandoned in the worst affected areas.
and Sierra leone at their request to revive their rice sectors under the umbrella of the World bank-funded West Africa Agricultural productivity Program (WAAPP).
According to FAO the 2014 rice production is expected to reduce by 12%in Liberia 8%in Sierra leone and 4%in Guinea.
In addition to addressing the immediate priority of Ebola control FAO and WFP have called for urgent action to reestablish the farming system in the three countries.
and planning strategies to make improved rice seed available to farmers with strong support from donors such as the Government of Japan the African Development bank FAO the International Fund for Agricultural development the United states Agency for International Development
The initial feedstock flows meet in a honeycomb catalyst carrier that can be designed for the efficient operation of both modes and mixing states.
Metallic honeycombs are used already as catalytic convertors of exhaust gas in cars. They are characterized by a high thermal conductivity and mechanical robustness with a low pressure loss during alternating operation modes.
The honeycomb catalyst can be implemented easily in various plant sizes. In the future it might be possible to efficiently operate even smaller decentralized units e g. at rural biogas facilities.
Thanks to the newly developed honeycomb catalyst also smaller and medium-sized plants can be operated efficiently y
Everyone is fairly certain antibiotic resistance comes from extensive use of antibiotics in animal-based agriculture.
features fermentation and ethanol yields that set a new standard for conversion of biomass sugars from pretreated corn stover--the non-edible portion of corn crops such as the stalk--converting up to 97 percent
"Although cellulosic biomass such as corn stover, wheat straw and bagasse (the fibrous remains after sugar is extracted from sugarcane
'The research was funded by NC State start-up funds, the North carolina Agriculture Foundation and Dupont Nutrition and Health h
#New honeycomb-inspired design delivers superior protection from impact The technology could have major implications for the design
Conventional honeycomb structures are insular panels of repeating, often hexagonal-shaped cells in a range of sizes and configurations.
The shortcoming of conventional honeycombs is that they lose their full protective properties after only one impact due to plastic buckling of the material.
NS honeycombs, on the other hand, bounce back. The researchers devised a cell geometry capable of elastic buckling, giving NS honeycomb structures the resilience to recover their energy-absorbing shape and properties after impact.
The researchers manufactured 3. 5-inch NS honeycomb structures, as well as miniature NS honeycomb cells, from nylon using selective laser sintering for experimentation.
NS honeycombs can be made from a variety of materials to suit distinct applications. Subsequent custom compression and drop tests, designed
and fabricated at UT Austin, have confirmed the NS honeycomb structures'predicted energy-absorbing behavior and resilience.
That funding and additional collaboration with the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, an engineering company that frequently partners with the U s. military, helped support the advancement of NS honeycomb technology.
The researchers are also building a lab prototype of an enhanced combat helmet with NS honeycomb cells integrated that will be completed this fall.
%The novel concept was tested successfully in experiments at the Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ.
Dr. Ho offers the example of honeybees as among the starkest examples of how epigenomics affects cellular function and an organism's fate.
In feeding a larval honeybee with copious amounts of a richly nutritious secretion called royal jelly,
including the sugar in maize and sugarcane. Fermentation turns the sugar into lactic acid, which in turn is a building block for polylactic acid.
the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency. In addition, Yu envisions simply letting the resonator emit that energy in the form of infrared light toward the sky,
A new study describes how this trend has seen agriculture overtake deforestation as the leading source of land-based greenhouse gas pollution during the past decade.
Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture, suggesting agriculture indirect climate impacts surpass the impacts of deforestation for timber and other commodities.
The researchers aim to tally those indirect impacts later this year. This paper was an early step in a larger effort to better understand
Burning fuel produces about four times more climate pollution every year than forestry and agriculture combined figure that is growing.
that livestock are blamed for two-thirds of agriculture climate pollution every year. ee seeing an expansion of agricultural lands in some areas because of the growing global population,
said. ee also seeing intensification of agriculture. Although annual climate pollution from deforestation is declining,
but agriculture is discussed barely during the talks. here been a lot of discussion back and forth, and perhaps a good deal of polemic, about REDD, Steve Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental defense Fund, said. ut, over time,
Agriculture has only come onto the agenda more recently. Some countries, particularly India, have been averse to discussing agricultural impacts during U n. climate negotiationsargely
Doug Boucher, the director of climate research at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says agriculture climate impacts could be reduced without taking food off tables.
The biggest opportunities for reforming agriculture climate impacts can sometimes be found miles from where any food is grown.
Explosive urban growth matched with the steady planting of water-thirsty crops which use the majority of the water don't help.
and federal subsidies encourage farmers to plant some of the crops that use the most water.
but there are all kinds of agriculture efficiencies that have not been put into place.""While there are mixed views on
the fact remains that agriculture uses the most water, by far. Farming and agriculture use more than 70 percent of the water that flows from the Colorado river to the seven river basin states.
In addition to those crops, cotton is one of the thirstiest crops a farmer can grow, especially in a desert.
As it happens, many of the crops that use less water entitle farmers to fewer federal subsidies,
and so farmers don't have much of an incentive to switch crops. Though cotton production has dropped steeply in California
since 1995, California farmers have gotten $3 billion in federal subsidies to grow it. On top of subsidies,"Use it or Lose it"clauses in state water laws actually encourage farmers to flood their fields with much more water than they need
or by capturing shower water from inside for their gardens outside, for instance. The drought has inspired also innovation in water conservation for restaurants, pools and lawns.
providing a substantial supply for both L a. and San diego. The All-American Canal moves water along the tail-end of the Colorado river near the Mexican border, nourishing one of the state's most valuable agriculture areas,
and Dairy cows and chickens and other animals eat a lot of crops, which in turn require a lot of water.
Some research has suggested that the country's meat industries create such a high demand for water-thirsty feed crops, that if every American ate meat one less day a week,
while perovskite cells harvest only the visible part of the solar spectrum where the photons have more energy.
Scientists at UQ Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) have identified a hereditary component in wheat that is essential for anyone hoping to consistently make premium-quality bread.
Queensland grain growers have for many years produced wheat varieties classified as rime hard wheatbecause these were suited to the production of good-quality bread. he precise reason for the difference in the quality of the rime hard wheathas long been a mystery,
Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world, with global production of about 650 million tonnes and consumption in a variety of breads across different countries and cultures. rowing global demand for wheat requires ongoing genetic improvement to adapt to changing environmental conditions,
Professor Henry said. owever new wheat varieties must retain the essential quality characteristics of wheat. heat varieties are assessed normally for bread-making quality by conducting a baking test. his is only possible late in the breeding process
Professor Henry and his colleagues are eager to produce new premium wheat varieties. he good news is that premium wheats attract better prices so this discovery potentially means more dollars for Australian farmers.
AAFI scientists expect to exploit the bread-quality gene by developing improved wheat varieties using speed-breeding technologies that allow multiple generations of different varieties to be grown quickly
a layer of silicon single atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern that was fabricated first by researchers at UOW Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) and their partners in Europe and China.
because silicon always adopt diamond-like structure but not honeycomb structures, he said. t also very unstable when exposed to oxygen.
#Small changes have large benefits for crop breeding Researchers from The University of Western australia have developed a new method for breeding crops that will improve the potential for long-term, sustainable genetic improvement.
In a world first, Professor Wallace Cowling from The UWA Institute of Agriculture and his team have taken the breeding model commonly used by animal breeders,
and implemented it in self-pollinating crops. Self-pollinating crops, or elfingcrops, are plants that are normally fertilised from their own pollen.
Self-pollinating crops such as rice, wheat and other cereals, soy beans and certain vegetable-derived oils
account for more than 60 per cent of world food calories for human consumption. Farmers are used to saving the seed of wheat and other crops such as lupin,
field pea and chickpea, knowing that the harvested seed is identical to the sown seed as a result of selfing.
as proposed in Professor Cowling model for selfing crops, means there can be more accurate selection and shorter generation intervals with more sustainable long-term genetic improvement.
and recombination in self-pollinating crops normally occurs after selfing and selection of pure lines. n our research we changed the breeding process to allow rossing before selfingrather than elfing before crossing,
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