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April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Atmospheric carbon dioxide content continues its climb, heating up the climate. For plants, however, the gas is a necessary part of their survival. It provides the carbon needed to produce glucose and other important substances, leading scientists to question if more carbon dioxide is better. The answer isn't as simple as that, unfortunately. The plants used for our most basic food supply today have not been bred for vertical...
POULTNEY, Vt., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At heart, Fred Kirschenmann is a farmer--he still runs a 2600-acre family farm in North Dakota. Ever since the 1970s, when he converted the farm to a certified organic operation, he began thinking deeply about sustainability of agriculture as it is practiced today. His inquiry led to several decades of research, study and experimentation, and today Kirschenmann is an internationally-known advocate for land ethics and sustainable...
Following a Japan-UK research collaboration, a new method for marker assisted breeding is being used to slash the time it takes to isolate new traits such as salt tolerance. Details of the new method, called MutMap, will be published in Nature Biotechnology on Sunday so they can be used by scientists and breeders worldwide to dramatically accelerate crop breeding. "The beauty of the new method is its simplicity," said Professor Sophien Kamoun, co-author on the paper and Head of The...
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), delivered remarks at the 2011 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Department of State. The former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor, and the former President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, were jointly selected to receive the 2011 World Food Prize for their...
Herbicide use, technology transfer and education could bolster crop yields tenfold. Nairobi, Kenya (PRWEB) May 26, 2011 Even a modest increase in the transfer of technology and information through the agriculture value chain would increase crop production in Africa tenfold, according to experts who took part in the FCI Trade Summit in May 15-18 in Nairobi, Kenya. Increasing food productivity is imperative as farmers prepare to double food production to feed more than 9 billion people by...
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and Texas AgriLife Research, an agency of the Texas A&M University System, have announced the open call for applications for students interested in pursuing research in wheat or rice plant breeding. Applications for the third round of funding from Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program (MBBISP) are being accepted now through February 1, 2011. Funds are available for scholars pursuing a...
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a keynote speech today, former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Kofi A. Annan underlined the urgent need for a uniquely African green revolution to bring food security and overcome hunger throughout the continent. In his speech at the World Food Prize annual international symposium just ahead of World Food Day on 16 October, Mr. Annan: Described how over recent decades, Africa...
Research published in the journal Genetics suggests that mutant maize have multiple independent pathways used to regulate and export sugars throughout its various organsResearch published in the journal Genetics suggests that mutant maize have multiple independent pathways used to regulate and export sugars throughout its various organsMore than 40 years have passed since Woodstock, but psychedelics still have people seeing colors "” this time, in maize, and the significance is no...
Projects will advance basic research on key problems in small farmer agriculture in the developing worldTo support basic research that will build a foundation for generating sustainable, science-based solutions to agricultural problems in developing countries, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 15 grants in the inaugural year of the Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) program.The five-year program is jointly funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates...
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 20, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Monsanto Company and Texas AgriLife Research, an agency of the Texas A&M University System, remind students who are interested in improving research and production in rice and wheat that the application deadline for Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program is February 1. Students interested in applying to the program can find more details at www.monsanto.com/mbbischolars. Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International...
