Four crops in limbo three varieties of maize (corn) and one of soya bean are Monsanto products.
four maize varieties and one sugar-beet variety. Monsanto says that it will abandon applications for all of them except for one GM maize, MON810.
This is already grown in the EU, but is now up for its ten-year re  approval review.
EFSA applications for four GM maize varieties from other companies are still pending two from Dupont Pioneer
and that habitat destruction threatens wild maize (corn) in Mexico. Dulloo adds that complementary efforts to conserve the plants within their native habitats should also be pursued to allow crop wild relatives to continue evolving
ethanol from maize (corn) the main biofuel for US vehicles was given the green light under the agency s rules.
Because the technique removed the native grasses holding the soil in place, however, it left the ground vulnerable to the region s severe winds.
In 2011, APHIS regulators announced that a herbicide-tolerant Kentucky bluegrass would not fall under their purview,
or any other plant-pest DNA to engineer the grass. The company, Scotts  Miracle-Gro of Marysville, Ohio,
Sally  Mackenzie, a plant biologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, contacted APHIS about the high-yield offspring of a transgenic sorghum grass plant
and may allow her to launch a company to develop her grass variety. Agricultural giants Monsanto, based in St  Louis, Missouri,
that it would not regulate a herbicide-tolerant maize (corn) made using zinc-finger nucleases.
since the maize project, but is working with outside researchers to develop other crops using similar technology.
Oryza sativa, gets a significant fitness boost from glyphosate resistance, even when glyphosate is applied not. In their study, published this month in New Phytologist1,
Lu and his colleagues genetically modified the cultivated rice species to overexpress its own EPSP synthase and crossbred the modified rice with a weedy relative.
Grass gets greenerindustrial power plants take most of the flack for climate change. But nature s plants are not blameless:
On 13 september, researchers announced that they have bred a tropical pasture grass that can significantly suppress greenhouse-gas emissions.
an agronomist at CIAT and leader of the team that has developed the low-emissions grass,
CIAT researchers noticed that some grasses grow well even without fertilizer particularly Brachiaria humidicola, which is adapted to low-nitrogen South american savannahs.
After years of hunting, they identified a nitrification inhibitor secreted by the grass s roots.
but Brachiaria grasses were best. The researchers have spent more than 8 years breeding the plants to maximize this ability.
and are now checking that this has decreased not the overall productivity of the grass. As a side-benefit, the team reported this week at the 22nd International Grasslands Congress in Sydney, Australia,
maize (corn) grown in pastures that previously hosted Brachiaria produces nearly four times as much grain with low levels of fertilizer as maize grown in previously cropped land."
and to encourage native grasses, wild flowers and brush by selectively thinning the trees. It also wants to restore the original natural habitat
Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retractedbowing to scientists'near-universal scorn, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology today fulfilled its threat to retract a controversial paper claiming that a genetically modified (GM) maize causes serious disease in rats,
after the authors refused to withdraw it. The paper, from a research group led by Gilles-Eric SÃ ralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen, France,
The study found that rats fed for two years with Monsanto s glyphosate-resistant NK603 maize (corn) developed many more tumours
the herbicide used with GM maize, was added to their drinking water. See'Rat study sparks GM furore'.
to authorize cultivation of GM maize in Europe. Conflicts of interest with the European Food safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy,
%The rule is projected to reduce maize (corn) ethanol consumption by 3 Â billion litres next year,
whether to authorize GM maize (corn) made by Dupont Pioneer in Johnston, Iowa, which first requested approval in 2001.
Only a majority of votes in favour of rejection will prevent the maize from being approved.
The company plans to sell a mixture of fungi for coating rice and maize (corn) seeds,
Monsanto s Droughtgard maize, which expresses a stress-response gene from bacteria. Although symbiotic plant-microbe relationships such as those of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in the roots of legumes have been known for many decades,
Only in the 1970s did researchers realize that a fungus living in symbiosis with tall fescue grass was responsible for making cattle grazing on infected pastures ill.
Scientists in New zealand later discovered that some endophyte-ridden grasses, although poisonous to livestock, were resistant to attack by weevils.
they could grow in anything from watermelons to maize and confer heat-and drought-tolerance on those crops."
compared to untreated seeds, the product increased maize yields by 85%in Michigan during a 2012 drought, increased seed germination rates by two to five times during 5 °C cold snaps,
and enabled maize to use one-third less water. In rice, the scientists saw yield increases of 3-6%in 2012 and 2013,
dried grasses and other indigestible plant matter could greatly improve the efficiency of converting waste biomass to fuel.
including sugar cane and maize (corn). But most of the biomass produced in agriculture and forestry lies unused in more-complex chains of sugars, for example lignin and cellulose.
grasses and the non-edible parts of crops, are hard to break down. Producers of cellulosic ethanol currently spend 15-20%of their fuel costs on acids
Seeds of change The US Department of agriculture (USDA) on 3 Â January proposed removing restrictions on the use of maize (corn)
GM maize Europe may allow farmers to grow a genetically modified (GM) variety of maize (corn) after a proposal to approve the crop did not receive enough opposition to be quashed at a meeting of European union member states on 11 february.
Irrigation call Global yields of maize (corn) could rise by 67%by 2050 if farmers in the developing world stopped tilling their soil and began irrigating their fields,
although it did plant its first drought-tolerant maize (corn) varieties, suggesting potential for future growth.
whether to approve a genetically modified maize (corn) crop called Pioneer 1507, which is engineered to be resistant to insect pests. 12-13 february London hosts a global conference on the illegal trade in wildlife.
and involved linseed, rice, maize (corn) and papaya. Once detected, most shipments were destroyed or returned to the country of origin.
the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico is holding a conference to discuss the state of research on wheat. go. nature. com/hrne9g26-28 march Physicists debate a suitable landing site for the Exomars rover at a meeting
But unlike most ethanol factories, in which yeast feeds on sugars in foodstuffs such as maize (corn) kernels,
Thousands of tonnes of corn stover the leaves, stalks and husks left over after the maize harvest are stacked already waiting
because the maize must be grown on land that would otherwise be used for food. Tapping the storehouse of biomass left after the harvest is much less controversial.
whether it should allow sales of maize (corn) and soya bean seeds that are engineered genetically to resist herbicides such as 2, 4-D
and eating only bamboo which is far less nutritious (they also stopped running and now only can walk
2. They don't just eat bamboo they eat the two most endangered types of bamboo growing in the wild
and these species have grown never as major types of bamboo. 3. Pandas are black and white in a green forest. 4. Female Pandas ovulate once per year
Can you believe they only eat non-nutritious bamboo? Paraphrased Response: It's ok to eat something poor
Also the panda doesn't eat any old bamboo. It is notoriously picky. It does have a relatively wide range of actual species it can eat
To make things even worse Bamboo species will flower and die off at the same time. This means that a panda must live in an area of 2
and getting them all of the bamboo they want for now they still have the ability to go back to a wider diet of more widely available food.
and longer-term projects looking to grow soybeans and grains. Such space-farmed produce could save on the weight of the supplies astronauts need to bring with them;
After their first plantings they may keep some of the grains to plant as next year's crops.
and track down other food sources from vegetation and grasses. The study reveals something interesting about the way scientists might operate.
and grains that humans could use directly. The United nations has been urging people in Western countries to eat insects for years.
& whole grain spelt bread & quinoa & oatmeal & cranberries & caramel & & & & & &...The only thing that makes an all meat diet not work is cooking it.
and digestive problems. www. english. rfi. fr/americas/20120920-monsanto-gm-maize-may-face-europe-ban-after-french-study-links-cancersincerely-Joewww. joesid. compoor rats...
The study cited in the article was a 2-year toxicology study of rats fed Monsanto's Roundup-resistant NK103 maize (corn) and the herbicide Roundup.
One of them was claiming that a cow uses 28 calories of grass to make a calorie of beef
Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.
That means the original grass or grain must be fed to a cow first and then the unused food value that remains in the blood of the calf after slaughter is available for meat production plus some additionally highly processed nutrients. 2) Amoral
When the lever was released the sudden decompression made all the grains blast out of the gun's port
We also have the stunning blue Puya berteroniana. 1. Good and evil do not exist-this is a plant that wants to survive just like those sheep eat grass to survive-news flash-they KILL the grass.
but have tasted you ever the difference in beef from a grass fed cow to a corn fed cow...
Making mineral-enriched grains is more difficult however because it involves many genes. It also involves many interacting minerals.
or foods rich in Copper (liver oysters lobster and chocolate Adding these minerals naturally by having the plant put them in the grains would improve the health of those persons in less-developed countries who are dependent on rice.
@laurenra7-Tree/grass cover in dry areas in the SW US is not positive. The massive amounts of water and fertilizers used to grow grass where there ought not to be is
just as destructive as removing trees where they should be. -Pinatubo's effect on the climate lasted 2-3 years.
Grass is a different story. Despite years of trying to measure it no one has shown yet conclusively that slow and steady release of greenhouse gases by humans has had a noticeable impact on the planet.
The HEI as it's usually called awards points for a diet that includes more of certain items (dark green vegetables whole grains seafood) and also points for less of other items (refined grains sodium and the vague empty calories.
You need more than vegetables for sustenance like grains protein fat (vegetable or animal) and basically calories
Coaches have known this for decades and teach it on grass lawns to show proper form when running on the track.
and make a single blade of grass. Until we can take the periodic table and build any of nature's simple components
To meet nutritional requirements pet food manufacturers blend animal fats and meals with soy and wheat grains and vitamins and minerals.
The twirling design slows wind currents as they circle the building disrupting the vortex shedding that can cause a skyscraper to shake violently in the wind (the same way a blade of grass vibrates
A herd of cattle was killed by cyanide gas produced by genetially modified grass in Texas in June of last year.
www. cbsnews. com/8301-201 162-57459357/gm-grass-linked-to-texas-cattle-deaths Oh wait...
As originally published this story referred to Tifton 85 grass as a genetically-modified product
it is actually a hybrid of Bermuda grass Go nuts on the theories some may be correct
Leave some grains out for long enough and it rains the right way and boom you have fermented liquid that will get you drunk.
Or grass. or bacon fat. You just have to THINK K
#Apple Files For Patent On Snap-Band Watch Thingthere's been a lot of chatter about Apple creating a smartwatch--a wearable computer that syncs with a smartphone--on such publications as um this one as of late.
Growth in the productivity of grains has fallen to 1. 2 percent a year Grantham reports
I simply don't care to mow grass. Other designers have been building freestanding units of similar design for years.
and simply don't care to mow grass as if that's all esumiwa is capable of
By the way we don't have grass lawns-we have gravel'lawns 'unless someone has money to throw away on a non-income producing crop.
That cuts out dairy grains sugars and legumes as well as all delicious processed foods. But unless you happen to be an expert in pre-Neolithic living
Hopefully the unknown source will follow up with another edition Is my butter grass fed? Visual. ly But like-hasn't this Paleo diet thing been disproven to death?
http://news. discovery. com/history/archaeology/flour-human-ancestors-neanderthals. htm Like our paleo-ancestors did eat grains knucklehead...
P...Hopefully the unknown source will follow up with another edition Is my butter grass fed?..
Grains are basically evil but some of the other stuff is a bit overboard. Dairy is a great addition to a diet
There is no question that the Paleo diet is the healthy way to go as grains dairy etc. lead to obesity disorders
In 2012 genome researchers sequenced the DNA of an unborn human baby the western lowland gorilla fruits and grains and livestock.
the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;
#Microscopically Structuring Steel Like Bamboo Makes It Stronger Yet More Flexiblepeople's teeth and bamboo stalks may not seem very durable compared to bars of steel.
A team of chemists from China and the U s. manufactured steel with a particular microstructure inspired by teeth and bamboo.
At the surface the newly developed steel is composed of grains that are 96 nanometers wide or about 1000 times thinner than a sheet of paper.
Deeper down into the metal however the grains become gradually larger. At its core the steel has grains about 35 micrometers in size or more than 300 times wider than the grains at the surface.
Of course all this change in grain size happens over a very short distance. The entire sheet of steel is only one millimeter thick.
The small grains on the surface of the steel help make the metal harder. Meanwhile the larger grains deeper inside allow the steel to bend.
Many things in the natural world also have microstructures that have a gradient of grain sizes from surface to center.
Grass takes 55 gallons of water per square foot a year. A water-efficient yard might use 8 to 10 gallons.
New developments can have grass on only half of a backyard s square footage nd none in front.
New commercial properties are banned from using ornamental grass. The median down the Las vegas Strip in fact is made of synthetic turf As Kern drives he keeps his eyes on the gutters.
but the rest is all flat green grass. This is the wrong day for watering but the sprinklers are going full force with misdirected nozzles spraying directly onto the sidewalk.
And when the sun comes out it is pleasant to lie on your belly in the meadow to refresh your memory of grass and of the tiny flowers that bloom in microscopia.
and the game followed the grass. With the domestication of animals the roving continued but only following the grass.
With the beginning of agriculture the crops stood still and most men settled down. But over the years by selection the animals changed and the cereals changed.
The grains we use today have little resemblance to their ancestor seeds and the animals could not be recognized by their early progenitors.
The salt-rising process produces a leavened loaf from grains and water in about eighteen hours.
Not just all kinds of grains milled or flaked conventional or organic including packaged breakfast oatmeal and shredded wheat but even bark from oak and black locust trees.
The aspiring plant bioengineer worked with a team of scientists to test how not getting enough water altered the quality of barley grains.
In a small pilot study the scientists found that the starches inside barley grains grown with too little water are different from starches found inside nicely-watered barley grains.
The dryness-stressed barley had longer-chain starch grains and more protein than normally grown barley.
If that affects the quality of different grains including the barley that goes into beer that means people will have to pay more for the same quality of beer Gous told the Brisbane Times.
To add to the environmental insults meat animals are fed about 1 billion metric tons a year of the same cereal grains that humans consume increasing the pressure on supplies of food and fresh water.
With around 70 percent of cereal grains consumed in developed countries going to feed animals and around one-third of the world's grain supply worldwide the most important step may be feeding animals less human food.
Instead of feeding livestock grains like wheat corn and soybeans stress the researchers cows goats sheep
95 percent of milk in the European union comes from grass-fed livestock the article notes
while in New zealand milk cows get just 10 percent of their diet from grains and 90 percent from grazing.
They looked at the following fiber intake total insoluble (whole grains potato skins etc) soluble (legumes nuts oats barley etc) cereal fruit vegetable and other sources.
They add that an additional 7g of fiber can be achieved through one portion of whole grains (found in bread cereal rice pasta) plus a portion of beans/lentils or two to four servings of fruit and vegetables.
He says that teaching patients to eat whole grains is still challenging but that encouraging the increase of fiber gradually as well as drinking adequate amounts of water are other practical recommendations.
and sheep production are 19 to 48 times higher (on the basis of pounds of food produced) than they are from producing protein-rich plant foods such as beans grains or soy products.
To understand current ECB populations in Pennsylvania field corn the researchers assessed larval damage in Bt and non-Bt corn hybrids at 29 sites over three years.
and periods of ECB activity their utility as a predictive tool particularly for field corn has been limited Bohnenblust said.
We found that ECB moths captured in the Pestwatch network correlate well with in-field populations of ECB in field corn which means that Pestwatch data hold potential to inform decisions about
#¢Start each day with a healthy breakfast that includes whole grains fat-free or low-fat dairy for calcium and Vitamin d and Vitamin c-rich foods.#¢
#¢Replace refined grains with whole grains like whole-grain breads and cereals and brown rice.#¢#¢Prewashed salad greens and pre-cut vegetables make great quick meals or snacks.#¢
but collect and carry vegetation--often grasses flowers fir needles and herbaceous forbs such as lupine alumroot and yarrow--to their homes to make haypiles for winter use.
The scientists surveyed the abundance of lichens mosses ferns grasses sedges rushes forbs shrubs and trees along the two rockslides.
and Livesixty percent of the pikas'diet by dry weight came from moss at both sites with the rest from grasses lichens ferns forbs shrubs and some fir needles.
In arid regions of Sub-saharan africa for example where the fodder available to grazing animals is of much lower quality than that in many other regions a cow can consume up to ten times more feed--mainly in the form of rangeland grasses--to produce a kilo of protein than a cow
Given the present trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions agricultural models estimate that climate change will directly reduce food production from maize soybeans wheat and rice by as much as 43 percent by the end of the 21st century.
Quality and quantity of alpine grasses and herbs ultimately affect the vitality of The swiss wildlife icon.
and analyses of their teeth indicated they relied heavily on eating grasses in the grassy woodland environment.
Analyses of the isotopic composition of the enamel confirmed that E. woldegabrieli subsisted on grass.
Grasses are like sandpaper Simpson said. They wear the teeth down and leave a characteristic signature of pits
A large body of research has shown that grass and legume forages promote cow health and improve the fatty acid profile in organic dairy products.
and maize gluten meal they did not cause inflammation but tended to reduce the fish's utilization of nutrients in the feed.
Huge grains of copper promote better graphene growthto technology insiders graphene is certified a big deal.
a thin film of copper with massive crystalline grains. The team's findings appear in the journal AIP Advances which is produced by AIP Publishing.
The large grains are several centimeters in size--lunkers by microelectronics standards --but their relative bulk enables them to survive the high temperatures needed for graphene growth explained NIST researcher Mark Keller.
but the grains in these films are typically smaller than one micrometer. To fabricate the new copper surface
whose grains are about 10000 times larger the researchers came up with a two-step process.
To demonstrate the viability of their giant-grained film the researchers successfully grew graphene grains 0. 2 millimeters in diameter on the new copper surface.
Team reports on US trials of bioenergy grassesthe first long-term U s. field trials of Miscanthus x giganteus a towering perennial grass used in bioenergy production reveal that its exceptional yields
though reduced somewhat after five years of growth are still more than twice those of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) another perennial grass used as a bioenergy feedstock.
But the increases were compared small to the effects of fertilizing crops such as Zea mays (corn) and probably not large enough to justify the added cost of fertilizer the team reported.
#Integrated pest management for billbugs in orchardgrasstwo weevil species the bluegrass billbug and the hunting billbug have caused widespread economic damage to orchardgrass a cool season grass that is cultivated throughout the United states as a high
Described by Linnaeus in 1753 orchardgrass is a cool season bunchgrass used for forage throughout the world.
and grains of sand were tested using a combination of radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence techniques.
#Link between allergies, increased risk of blood cancers in womena team of scientists looking into the interplay of the immune system and cancer have found a link between a history of airborne allergies--in particular to plants grass and trees
History of asthma and allergies was taken also including allergies to plants grasses or trees; mold or dust;
The most statistically significant association was seen with allergies to plants grass and trees. Further the study looked at associations between the different subtypes of allergies
and hematologic malignancies and found that a history of allergies to plants grass and trees was associated significantly with mature B-cell neoplasms one of four major categories of lymphoma.
and grass the flavor of their meat is distinctly flavorful and the exercise supposedly improves the texture too.#¢
Magnetic pollen replicas offer multimodal adhesionresearchers have created magnetic replicas of sunflower pollen grains using a wet chemical layer-by-layer process that applies highly conformal iron oxide coatings.
Pollen grains are inexpensive and sustainable templates that are readily available in large quantities said Ken Sandhage a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology.
Because pollen grains are designed already by nature for adhesion we thought that it would be interesting to try to augment such natural behavior with an additional nonnatural mode of adhesion.
The sunflower pollen grains are nearly spherical but covered with spikes that can entangle with the hairs on bees'legs
Heating the particles to 600 degrees Celsius then burned out the organic material from the original pollen grains
We examined individual pollen grains before and after firing and we could see that the shape
The conformal nature of the coating process allowed us to generate ceramic replicas that retained even tiny surface features on the starting pollen grains.
They studied replica pollen adhesion to polyvinyl alcohol polyvinyl acetate polystyrene silicon nickel and neodymium-iron-boron--and compared the adhesion properties to those of the original sunflower pollen grains.
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