Synopsis:
2.0.. agro: Grains:
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the slurry that comes out of the biogas can be used to fertilize grass and crops, he says.
In 2007, they went to India to test their business plan and that's when White and his partner, Sorin Grama, first heard about the milk problem.
White and Grama toyed with different designs, and different technologies. Like Kisaalita, they thought about using solar power,
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As many as 20 million hectares of cultivated rice are affected by submergence in Asia every year. To get round the problem,
millet and maize oe that are high in calories but lack iron, zinc, Vitamin a and other micronutrients.
researchers are now trying to find maize strains that naturally produce high levels of beta-carotene.
and their collaborators screened around 300 maize strains, and unearthed some with boosted beta-carotene levels.
They then looked for any genes in these maize strains that resembled genes linked to high beta-carotene levels in other plants."
finding a small number of maize varieties that grow in both tropical and temperate climates and
Plant breeders are using the naturally occurring maize plants and those markers to breed new plants.
impactlab_2011 00623.txt
Early visions of smart dust technology Smart Dust In the 1990s, Kris Pister, a researcher at UC Berkley dreamed up the idea of sprinkling the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains
impactlab_2013 00259.txt
including synthetic versions of fragrances extracted from grass, coconut oil and saffron powder, as well as a gas used to make car tires.
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Even ordinary staples, such as maize, have risen markedly in price. High prices have boosted the living standard of millions of African farmers, especially the most enterprising, well-organized ones.
In Malawi, the government s decision in 2005 to give maize farmers fertilizer and hybrid seeds at a steep discount resulted in record harvests.
Colombia, found that cassava outperformed potatoes, maize, beans, bananas, millet, and sorghum in tests of 24 climate-prediction and crop-suitability models.
Wheat from Kenya, maize from Zimbabwe, and fruits and vegetables from western and southern Africa adorned European tables.
while neighboring Uganda produces surpluses of maize and other staples; yet parts of western and northern Kenya face a chronic struggle for food.
and production of maize soared. Skeptics of farm subsidies must at least accept that Malawi has followed only the U s. and European example of rewarding farmers with aid.
impactlab_2013 01356.txt
individual ranchers are pooling areas to form a grass bank for their common use. Anything that I can do in my profession to encourage flexibility,
Livescience_2013 01264.txt
and ranching operation is looking out on a deep green field of sunflower vetch corn clover buckwheat savannah grass and other crops.
Nature 00734.txt
Environmental groups are protesting after the Mexican government's 15 october approval of the first permits to plant experimental genetically modified (GM) maize (corn.
which is the homeland of domesticated maize. Mexican environmental and agricultural agencies say that they will keep plantings away from traditional'landrace'maize,
and will monitor the experimental crops closely before considering requests from agribusiness for full-scale GM maize planting.
But researchers say that past landrace contaminations from illegal GM maize planting (see Nature 456,149;
2008) mean corruption of traditional genomes is inevitable. Events Hwang convicted Disgraced South korean cloning scientist Woo Suk Hwang left Seoul Central District court on 26 october knowing that his sentence,
Nature 01906.txt
Producers of ethanol from corn (maize) starch got what they needed out of a tax package enacted by the US Congress last week:
Nature 02517.txt
Nature Newswhen the US Department of agriculture (USDA) announced this month that it did not have the authority to oversee a new variety of genetically modified (GM) Kentucky bluegrass,
The grass, a GM variety of Poa pratensis, is still in the early stages of development by Scotts Miracle-Gro
The grass has been altered genetically to tolerate the herbicide glyphosate, which would make it easier to keep a lawn weed-free.
The grass can evade control because the regulations for GM plants derive from the Federal Plant Pest Act,
'Scotts took advantage of both techniques to construct the herbicide-resistant Kentucky bluegrass that put the USDA's regulatory powers to the test.
Switzerland, conducted the first field trials of maize (corn) containing engineered mini-chromosomes, and showed that the mini-chromosomes,
and Sangamo Biosciences in Richmond, California, announced that they had used enzymes called zinc-finger nucleases to insert a gene for herbicide resistance at a specific site in the maize genome (V. K. Shukla et al.
The Kentucky bluegrass decision drives this point home, he says: It really speaks to the importance of reviewing the regulatory process periodically to ensure that it is keeping up with the advances in technology.
Nature 03484.txt
and Madre de dios tends to yield larger, coarser grains. To reduce miners exposure to mercury, non-governmental organizations have distributed retorts that can capture the toxic vapour.
Nature 03923.txt
this has forced Brazil to import some 1. 5 billion litres of maize (corn) ethanol from the United states over the past 2 Â years.
Nature 04741.txt
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.
Nature 05194.txt
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
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After their first plantings they may keep some of the grains to plant as next year's crops.
popsci_2013 01048.txt
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.
popsci_2013 01103.txt
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
Popsci_2014 00283.txt
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;
ScienceDaily_2013 05152.txt
#Grains fumigated ecologicallya substance present in nature turned out to be just as effective as other chemical compounds to eradicate harmful organisms in stored grains without negative effects.
Agro a Mexican enterprise that operates silos and warehouses located in Sinaloa (Northwest Mexico) created a new technology of effective fumigation that solely uses ozone.
when in the middle of a silo or warehouse fill with grains. There they perforate the external layer of the stored products feed freely have good temperature
and ten percent of all the stored grains worldwide mainly corn wheat sorghum rice and beans. Until five years ago the main fumigation technique and pest control inside warehouses
However this can be substituted by an ozone system that ventilates the grains for 48 hours.
and modifying the internal atmosphere of the room using this technique pest free grains are obtained during the whole purchase sale and storage cycle.
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Patrick Brown an assistant professor in plant breeding and genetics said having a complete characterization of the locations (loci) affecting specific traits will speed up the adaptation of sorghum and other related grasses to new production
While much improvement has been done for grain sorghum Brown said little improvement has been done for sweet or bioenergy types.
But now there is a lot of interest in using sorghum for other things such as growing sweet sorghum in areas where they grow sugarcane and growing biomass sorghum for bioenergy through combustion or cellulosic technology.
and bring it into grain sorghum Brown said. We'll be able to start moving forward.
and use the genes that we bred for in grain sorghum over the last hundred years and move them into sweet sorghum and biomass sorghum.
The case I always make is that over here we have grain sorghum where we've done almost all the plant breeding
For that genetic diversity to be useful to grain sorghum we need to know where the genes are for height
while keeping our grain sorghum short and early like we need it he said. On the other hand Brown added that
or biomass sorghum researchers will need to bring in some of the genes from grain sorghum for traits like seed quality or early-season vigor.
Sweet sorghum where you squeeze the sugary juice out like sugarcane may be closer on the horizon.
There is an ethanol plant starting up in southern Illinois that plans to use 25 percent sweet sorghum.
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Early CVD experiments produced MDS with grains that were too tiny to be of use for their electrical properties.
when grains met at precise 60-degree angles. The ORNL electron microscopy images make it possible to view these grain boundaries directly.
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even if stitched together from many small crystalline grains is almost as strong as graphene in its perfect crystalline form.
Large-area sheets required for applications must contain many small grains connected at grain boundaries
But CVD graphene is stitched'together from many small crystalline grains--like a quilt--at grain boundaries that contain defects in the atomic structure Kysar explains.
Their experiments demonstrated that CVD graphene with large grains is exactly as strong as exfoliated graphene showing that its crystal lattice is just as perfect.
And more surprisingly their experiments also showed that CVD graphene with small grains even when tested right at a grain boundary is about 90%as strong as the ideal crystal This is an exciting result for the future of graphene
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Also known as elephant grass miscanthus is one of a new generation of renewable energy crops that can be converted into renewable energy by being burned in biomass power stations.
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Synthesized from the sugars in the cellulosic biomass of grasses other non-food crops and agricultural waste advanced biofuels represent a sustainable nonpolluting source of transportation fuel that would also generate domestic jobs and revenue.
Unlike the simple starch-based glucose sugars in corn and other grains the sugars in cellulosic biomass are complex polysaccharides that must be extricated from a tough polymer called lignin
The new PALM-based technique should allow enzyme cock tails to be matched optimally to the structural organizations of particular biomass substrates such as grass
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Corn ethanol's byproduct--called distiller's dried grains--can be used as cattle feed but cellulosic ethanol's byproduct--called high-lignin residue--is perceived often as less valuable.
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A typical BECCS system converts woody biomass grass and other vegetation into electricity chemical products or fuels such as ethanol.
As a carbon-negative technology BECCS takes advantage of the innate ability of trees grasses
To make the process carbon negative researchers have proposed a BECCS co-fired power plant that runs on a mixture of fossil fuel (such as coal) and vegetation (wood grass or straw for example.
The type of feedstock also contributes to stability with wood being more stable than grasses and manure.
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and other omega-3 rich grains have fewer respiratory diseases. The cattle also have higher fertility rates which helps offset infertility among dairy cattle.
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#Automated imaging system looks underground to help improve cropsplant scientists are working to improve important food crops such as rice maize
In collaboration with a research team led by Jonathan Lynch a professor of plant sciences at Penn State the system has been evaluated in South africa with cowpea and maize plants.
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Both grains have high levels of protein fiber and beta-glucan. There is now evidence that oats
or fractionalize into edible and easy to use food components said Keshun Liu Phd research chemist United states Department of agriculture (USDA) National Small Grains and Potato Germplan Research Unit.
and the functionality of milled flour from these grains and a poor public image said Liu.
In addition the U s. has ample and affordable supplies of other grains such as rice and wheat
and more efficient methods of breaking down the components and nutrients in these grains to make oats
and to educate consumers about the health benefits of beta-glucan and these two grains.
Smart_Planet_7 00368.txt
so that plants and grass will be watered only when conditions call for it. And not when it is raining;
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rice and maize yields around the world, IFPRI researchers have found that drought tolerance technologies for rain-fed agriculture would increase maize output by 27 percent,
wheat output by 30 percent and rice output by 10 percent by 2050, assuming farmers fully adopt the technology over a 30-year period.
Integrated soil fertility management--a term for a variety of nonchemical practices that raise the nutrient levels of soils--could raise maize output by up to 50 percent,
or high technology could improve maize yields by 22 percent, rice yields by 12 percent and wheat yields by 19 percent.
maize prices could shoot up 90 percent, rice by 65 percent and wheat by 70 percent,
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