and yeast researchers from the University of Alicante have developed a novel and efficient antifungal composition with pharmacological applications in agriculture and food industry among others.
In agriculture pesticide treatments preferably in the control of diseases caused by pathogenic fungi as Botrytis cinerea and Fusarium oxysporum.
Over half of all tropical forests have already been converted for agriculture logged or burnt in the recent past.
This system is characterized by high density of cropland high inputs of nitrogen fertilizers temperate climate high crop yields large capital investments in the agricultural sector low proportion of GDP originating from agriculture and good
Because the socioeconomic data show that agriculture plays an important role in the national economy of the local countries it is essential to develop
The Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture later sent samples of the fungus to Professor Randy Ploetz of the University of Florida who forwarded them to Gert Kema a scientist at Wageningen UR.
In Africa where much of the future growth in agriculture must take place erosion has reduced yields by 8%and nutrient depletion is widespread.
Activities associated with agriculture are currently responsible for just under one third of greenhouse gas emissions;
However it is not possible to feed the current and future world population with a dogmatically organic approach to global agriculture.
and Weichun Chang Council of Agriculture Taiwan contains another intriguing discovery. The scientists provide the first record of a caterpillar from the group feeding exclusively on pine trees Picea morrisonicola in Taiwan.
and the fertilizer value of potassium chloridein the chemical age of agriculture that began in the 1960s potassium chloride (KCL) the common salt often referred to as potash is used widely as a major fertilizer in the Corn belt without regard to the huge soil reserves that were recognized once for their fundamental
Implications for soil fertility crop production and human health which was posted on October 10th by Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.
The gold rush in Madre de dios Perã exceeds the combined effects of all other causes of forest loss in the region including from logging ranching and agriculture.
It is covered by floodway easement held by the state of California making other land uses subservient to flood control Agriculture is a major land use in the bypass with rice the primary crop.
and drained for agriculture conversion. Most former floodplain wetlands are inundated now only during major floods.
The data told us something major was happening in four different groups of bees at the same time says Rehan of UNH's College of Life sciences and Agriculture.
Indeed the findings of this study have important implications for today's concern about the loss in diversity of bees a pivotal species for agriculture and biodiversity.
but land is increasingly being fragmented for agriculture grazing lands and human settlements. The future of this wondrous but vulnerable species depends on the creation
Straw from agriculture could play an important role in the future energy mix for Germany. Up until now it has been underutilised as a biomass residue and waste material.
These were the conclusions of a study conducted by the TLL (Thueringian regional institute for agriculture) the DBFZ (German biomass research center) and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ.
For their respective study scientists analysed the development of residual substances resulting from German agriculture.
and adopting agriculture that while larger scale is higher yield. At the same time industries and automobiles continued to steadily emit carbon dioxide that contributed to a botanical boom.
After the 1940s and 1950s if you look at the land-use change trajectory it's been slowed down in the expansion of agriculture
When you go from extensive agriculture to intensive agriculture you industrialize the production of food
Ayca Gedikoglu a doctoral student studying food science in the MU College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources and Andrew Clarke associate professor of food science recently completed the first test on a citrus
I. animal sciences professor Jan Novakofski looked at liver concentrations of 20 organohalogenated compounds once used in agriculture and industry (all but one
The environmental scientists experts in air quality atmospheric chemistry and ecology have been studying the fate of nitrogen-based compounds that are blown into natural areas from power plants automobile exhaust and--increasingly--industrial agriculture.
and urbanization and agriculture now send runoff laden with fertilizers and other contaminants into Lake Okeechobee.
#Agricultural phosphorus recoveryphosphorus is an elemental nutrient in agriculture. In response to the increasing demand for phosphorus in the food biofuels and biobased materials industries global consumption of phosphate has risen significantly
#Precision agriculture for small scale farming systemsraj Khosla Phd and other agronomists have demonstrated internationally that working closely with farmers can improve crop yields.
Khosla will present Precision Agriculture for Small Scale Farming Systems on Wednesday Nov 6 2013 at 9: 30 AM.
/According to Khosla precision agriculture is a grossly misunderstood field due to its development over time in large scale farming systems.
The principles and concepts of precision agriculture are not only for large farms using large equipment.
He prefers to call it smart agriculture or appropriate agriculture. The examples we have from Africa Asia
Smart agriculture is very much a part of the solution but it is not the only solution.
More than 2. 6 billion people in the world rely on agriculture but around 52%of the land used for this scope shows soil degradation.
Unlike charcoal which is used primarily to produce heat biochar is used as a soil supplement in agriculture.
--because biochar not only has the potential to open profitable new markets for agriculture and industry it also provides data important to the protection of soils and the climate.
The main source of nitrous oxide is agriculture (84%.%It is therefore of great economic and environmental importance to find strategies to reduce nitrous oxide emission
agriculture will face competition for water from cities industries and recreation. With limited water and the increasing number of people depending on it water security is tenuous.
It is used for many purposes such as drinking water water for homes and businesses and irrigation water for agriculture.
The reuse of gray water for agriculture can decrease the amount of blue water withdrawn from stores and increase the green water available for plants to use.
and optimized if agriculture is to rise to the challenge of feeding over 9 billion people by 2050
With the help of the Pig Research Centre from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council each day the pigs were monitored for how often they would eat how much time they spent visiting the feeder how much they had eaten and
As more and more people recognize the importance of CWR to agriculture and food security national and global efforts to catalog
when we this research was how different nitrogen fertilizer supplements affected the overall soil organic matter composition says Dr. Adam Gillespie a postdoctoral fellow working with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).
Gary Stacey an investigator in the MU Bond Life sciences Center and professor of plant sciences in the College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources found that crops such as corn are confused
The genetic background of the Baoul is very valuable for African agriculture. Crossing large breeds of cattle that produce a lot of meat and milk such as the Zebu with the smaller but immunologically stronger Baoul could be very beneficial for farming in Africa.
which have started also to clear forests to make room for agriculture and urban development. In thinly populated areas such as parts of Amazon Siberia and Congo there are still large continuous stretches of unspoiled forests.
because across the tropics forest that has been harvested intensively is targeted frequently for conversion to agriculture and is perceived to hold little value for timber carbon or biodiversity.
With support from the Sime Darby oil palm company and the Malaysian government the aim is to produce a set of science-based recommendations for more sustainable practices in the logging and agriculture industries in tropical countries.
#Climate change to shift Kenyas breadbasketskenyan farmers and agriculture officials need to prepare for a possible geographic shift in maize production as climate change threatens to make some areas of the country much less productive for cultivation
The report released today by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS) at a high-level event with Kenya's agriculture and environment ministries finds that overall Kenyan farmers--who make up 75 percent of the country's labor force--may not only survive
but could even thrive in the face of climate change. The authors caution that there is a low adaptive capacity in Kenya's farming sector due to limited economic resources heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture frequent droughts and floods and general poverty.
But they believe there are reasons to be optimistic. As long as we offer farmers the right services
and food security in Kenya between now and 2050 is one chapter in an upcoming book produced by IFPRI and CCAFS East African Agriculture and Climate Change
The NAP meeting is a collaborative effort organized by CCAFS and Kenya's agriculture and environment ministries.
It is attracting representatives from government farmer organizations research institutes agriculture-oriented industries and civil society groups who are seeking consensus on agriculture-related actions to be included in Kenya's National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP).
Crop models reveal opportunities for Kenyan agriculturepredictions produced in the analysis of how climate change will affect farming in Kenya employed data from four different climate models to assess the impact on crop yields at over 6000 locations.
and the Ministry of Agriculture to introduce sorghum pigeon peas cowpeas green grams and sweet potatoes to supplement maize and other traditional staples.
The researchers studied second-growth forests in Panama that had been used for agriculture five to 300 years ago The presence of legume trees ensured rapid forest growth in the first 12 years of recovery and thus a substantial
Nitrous oxide makes up about 38 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture which accounts for almost a third of total emissions worldwide said Michael Peters who leads research on forages at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical agriculture (CIAT
BNI offers what could be agriculture's best bet for keeping global climate change within manageable limits.
but it also contributes about half of agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions Peters explained. BNI is a rare triple-win technology that's good for rural livelihoods as well as the global environment and climate.
and mammals with uses that include home insect control insect-repellant clothing dog and cat flea shampoos mosquito control and agriculture.
and agriculture is possible thanks to the work of scientists in the Center of Research
Council and the U s. Department of agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by American Chemical Society (ACS.
The authors acknowledge funding from the U s. Department of agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
The reports on herbicide resistance and its challenges and how modern agriculture is coping were part of a symposium on the topic at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) the world's largest scientific society.
and intensifying especially weed species resistant to multiple products including the mainstay of 21st century agriculture the herbicide glyphosate said Bryan Young Ph d. who spoke at the symposium.
Such processes could encourage development of a domestic natural food coloring industry with agriculture spreads devoted specifically to growing foods for use in making food and beverage coloring.
#Relationship between landscape simplification and insecticide use exploreda new UCSB study that analyzed U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) Census of Agriculture data spanning two decades (1987-2007) shows that the statistical magnitude existence
#Pest-eating birds mean money for coffee growersthis is the first time scientists have assigned a monetary value to the pest-control benefits rainforest birds can provide to agriculture.
The study is the first to put a monetary value on the pest-control benefits rainforest can provide to agriculture which the researchers hope can inform both farmers and conservationists.
and agriculture in Costa rica since the 1990s in part because of the vast amounts of land in that country dedicated to coffee production.
Agriculture has been yielding its share gradually to nonagricultural uses. The combination of less freshwater allocation to agriculture and growing volumes of urban wastewater is expected to continue
and intensify particularly in water scarce countries. Agriculture in these countries will increasingly rely on alternative water resources such as wastewater generated by nonagricultural activities in urban and peri-urban areas.
Under-reporting of wastewater generation treatment and reuse might relate to fear of economic repercussions in agricultural trade due to concerns regarding food safety and phytosanitary measures.
An estimated 46%of California's annual reclaimed water use takes place in agriculture. In Florida the proportion is 44%.
In most cases the wastewater used for in agriculture is polluted. For example untreated wastewater is used for irrigation in the peri-urban zones around Kumasi in Ghana Dakar in Senegal Nairobi in Kenya and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.
Wastewater use in agriculture and industry is not substantial accounting only for 7%and 1%of the treated wastewater respectively.
and managing wastewater for use in agriculture. Projections suggest that the potash supply in East asia will be much smaller than demand by 2014.
Based on more than 300000 references to individual trees within colonial-era property records the researchers found that logging agriculture
We're trying to shift the paradigm from traditional agriculture to something that's more sustainable
The research was supported by funding from the Energy Biosciences Institute and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch Project No.
Wallenberg's foundation the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.
A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical center shows that community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs may be a feasible approach for providing fresh fruits and vegetables to under-resourced communities.
#Report proposes microbiologys grand challenge to help feed the worlda greater focus on the role of microbiology in agriculture combined with new technologies can help mitigate potential food shortages associated with world population increases according to a new report from the American Academy
and agriculture including why plants need microbes what types of microbes they need how they interact
but they did not practise agriculture and did not have pigs sheep goats or cows all of
Baldcypress swamps are an ecosystem that once spread across the southeastern and eastern United states. They are currently being restored in some areas of the Gulf Coastal plain after years of degradation from agriculture saltwater intrusion and pests like the tent caterpillar.
if we're able to save water today it will result in a substantial increase in the number of years that we will have irrigated agriculture in Kansas Steward said.
Steward said he hoped the study helps support the current dialogue about decisions affecting how water can help build resiliency for agriculture in the future.
#Creating plants that make their own fertilizersince the dawn of agriculture people have exercised great ingenuity to pump more nitrogen into crop fields.
That would really revolutionize agriculture said Pakrasi Phd the Myron and Sonya Glassberg/Albert and Blanche Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) at Washington University
Much of modern agriculture relies on biologically available nitrogenous compounds made by an industrial process developed by German chemist Fritz Haber in 1909.
More than 1000 products on the market are based nanotechnology products said Mengshi Lin associate professor of food science in the MU College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources.
Agriculture is one of the biggest sources of the anthropogenic greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.
The additive a simple mixture of organic waste such as chicken manure and zeolite a porous volcanic rock could be used to support agriculture in both the developed and developing world
and indeed promoted by agriculture. Significantly the same findings have also been discovered independently and reported this year by a research group in China
The team estimated that 42 percent of historic olinguito habitat has already been converted to agriculture or urban areas.
Yet only one empirical-to-mechanistic comparison (of which Estes also was first author) has been published in relation to agriculture
Mechanistic models are more common in studying agriculture because there is a much greater wealth of data
and few landscapes are left On earth where the migratory animals do not have to share land resources with agriculture and other human activities.
The study has dramatic implications for California agriculture and the state's international trading partners
but industrialization forest clearing agriculture and other human activities have increased rapidly concentrations of CO2 and other gases known to create a greenhouse effect that traps heat in the atmosphere.
Given the impacts those kinds of seasons currently have on terrestrial forests agriculture and human health we'll likely see substantial stress from severely hot conditions.
and Management program in the University of Minnesota's College of Food Agriculture and Natural resource Sciences.
Two fungicides commonly used in agriculture pyraclostrobin and tebuconazole and one herbicide simazine were the most frequently detected compounds
The implications for agriculture are enormous as this new technology can provide much of the plant's nitrogen needs.
The University of Nottingham's Plant and Crop sciences Division is acclaimed internationally as a centre for fundamental and applied research underpinning its understanding of agriculture food production and quality and the natural environment.
Dr Susan Huxtable Director of Intellectual Property Commercialisation at The University of Nottingham believes that the N-Fix technology has significant implications for agriculture she said:
N-Fix has the power to transform agriculture while at the same time offering a significant cost benefit to the grower through the savings that they will make in the reduced costs of fertilisers.
Agriculture has to change and N-Fix can make a real and positive contribution to that change.
and industry has major implications for agriculture and the environment. The discovery that regulation of the Shell gene will enable breeders to boost palm oil yields by nearly one-third is excellent news for the rainforest
The government halted the conversion of new forest land for agriculture including palm oil in the 1990s.
and subsequently degraded by logging and agriculture. In other areas forests are cleared and replaced by single-species plantations of oil palm rubber trees and crops for biofuels.
This has been caused by intensifying agriculture and a failure to properly manage grassland ecosystems according to a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
and other insects--the pollination they carry out is essential for both natural ecosystems and agriculture.
Intensifying agriculture and abandoned land are the two main trends affecting the populations of grassland butterflies.
Agriculture has intensified where the land is relatively flat and easy to cultivate and on the other handlarge areas of grasslands have been abandoned in mountainous and wet regions mainly in eastern and southern Europe.
The European Grassland Butterfly Indicator could be used as a measure of success of agriculture policies.
A pioneering study of African savannas by the University of Edinburgh has revealed deforestation in south-central Africa driven by rising populations in the aftermath of war and increasing demand for trees for agriculture and fuel.
and ending the practice of burning forests to support agriculture and livestock. Loss of trees could impact on climate change as forests store carbon in their stems
IWMI and other centers involved with the CGIAR's Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS) are drawing attention to the Volta study as leaders from across Africa gather in Ghana for Africa Agriculture
Beyond that there is an urgent need to shift more food production away from rain-fed systems that are subject to the vagaries of climate to irrigated agriculture.
Agriculture accounts for 40 percent of the basin's economic activity. As rains become less
The study shows the loss of water in the basin would be especially challenging for poor farmers in rural areas where agriculture is the primary provider of food and income.
and agriculture to stand up to the climate challenge. For example the study suggests considering a broader mix of renewable energy sources including wind and solar.
The above story is provided based on materials by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security.
Deltamethrin fipronil and spinosad widely used pesticides in agriculture and home pest control were applied to healthy honeybees and proved toxic to some degree irrespective of dosage.
because modern agriculture is radically changing the selection pressures acting on rice the most important food crop for most of the world's populations.
and crop genes as they respond to the selection pressures of modern agriculture. Even though both weedy strains arose in Asia he says weedy rice became a problem in Southeast asia only in the last few decades.
Agriculture and land use change contributed about 1/3 of total human greenhouse gas emissions in the past decade through crop cultivation animal production and deforestation.
#Keys to reducing the impact of agriculture on climate changeland is not being used to its best advantage according to a new study by Ikerbasque Professor Unai Pascual from the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and University of Cambridge and a team of environmental
Land use in most of Europe is dominated by agriculture. Nearly half the total annual value of EU agriculture is based on public financial support surpassing 70%40%and 30%in the case of Ireland UK
and Spain respectively to name a few. The research team led by Prof. Ian Bateman from the University of East Anglia UK looked at the value for money of such public support in the UK where half a million land use records were used
This study provides evidence that conventional support for intensive agriculture in Europe is not working well enough for society.
and Agriculture indicate that inflammation-induced insulin resistance is in some cases an adaptive rather than pathological phenomenon.
In addition to his position in the College of Arts and Science Faaborg is an adjunct professor in the School of Natural resources in MU's College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources.
and animal-welfare issues in large animal-agriculture operations that supply food to supermarket chains may explain why consumers are switching to locally grown and locally processed foods.
the Campaign To end Antibiotic Overuse in Animal Agriculture believes that physicians and policymakers have overlooked the critical role played by the ongoing overuse of antibiotics in livestock and poultry.
It could have broad impacts in agriculture and medicine that affect people's lives especially in developing countries.
A field study in collaboration with the Bunda College of Agriculture in Malawi shows that a lower number of cortical cells reduces the energetic cost of soil exploration by the roots.
By combining this trait with other plant traits such as improved disease resistance the researchers expect that there is potential to produce improved seeds for agriculture.
The authors of the paper accept that the intensification of agriculture will have some implications for other important policy goals such as preserving biodiversity animal welfare human nutrition protecting rural economies and sustainable development.
'Agriculture is a potent sector for economic growth and rural development in many countries across Africa Asia and South america.
Co-author Sonja Vermeulen from the CGIAR Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS) said:'
Origins of agriculture in the Fertile Crescentfor decades archaeologists have been searching for the origins of agriculture.
Her results show that the origins of agriculture in the Near east can be attributed to multiple centers rather than a single core area
and the loss of production from agriculture CO2 emissions will have to fall even more sharply. This is demonstrated by a study published in Nature that has been carried out at the University of Bern.
Farmers could improve air quality by using hormonesthe agriculture industry is researching new technologies to help feed the growing population.
Dr. Kim Stackhouse National Cattleman's Beef Association Director of Sustainability said animal agriculture has reduced emissions through the use of technologies.
Study reveals potent carbon-storage potential of human-made wetlandsafter being drained by the millions of acres to make way for agriculture wetlands are staging a small comeback these days on farms.
The authors explain that boosting crop yields is considered a preferred solution to meet demands rather than clearing more land for agriculture.
Many of the animals moving southward through central Argentina will be funneled by agriculture and development through the more intact parts of the Gran Chaco region and into the Sierras de CÃ rdoba and the Andes mountains.
For the human impacts component the scientists added cities agriculture and other landscape barriers to 30-mile-square (50-kilometer-square) cells across the Western hemisphere.
and agriculture lands represent both a conservation challenge and opportunity to help species respond to climate-induced changes in temperature.
Pesticides for example those used in agriculture are among the most-investigated and regulated groups of pollutants.
and researcher in Ecker's lab. In this way mapping interconnections between the hormone pathways may have implications in agriculture.
Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carriã re in the department of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Br vault from the Center for Agricultural Research for Development
I see these crops as an increasingly important part of the future of agriculture. The progress made provides motivation to collect more data
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