... structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses. The cost of worldwide crop losses due to plant diseases is estimated at $60 billion ...
... annual sales, face a 5 percent decrease.
However, the effects of warming on some of California's other crops are unclear.
In the case of almonds-California produces 80 percent of the world's supply ...
... strain on California's water supply and energy systems and have a devastating impact on certain crops. Stanford researchers predicted outcomes based on projections from two different emission ...
... Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "But crop estimates are only as good as the observations available to drive ... led to an estimated $1.1 billion in crop losses in Texas alone.
"This advance is making ...
Pests, disease and post-harvest problems are drastically reducing crop yields, a summit has heard, and quick technical fixes are a priority.
An international team of 27 laboratories said on Sunday they had laid bare the genetic code of a tiny parasite responsible for billions of dollars in crop losses each year.
... and each year cause billions of dollars in crop damage.
Caenorhabditis elegans worms have long been a ... plants, causes half a billion dollars worth of crop loss each year in the United States alone. ...
A biochemist has demonstrated that a protein from ornamental tobacco is able to break through cell walls and kill a fungal cell that causes major disease and crop losses in plants worldwide.
A biochemist has demonstrated that a protein from ornamental tobacco is able to break through cell walls and kill a fungal cell that causes major disease and crop losses in plants worldwide.
... release by national and state seed certification agencies in Bangladesh and India, where farmers suffer major crop losses because of flooding of up to 4 million tons of rice per ...
... farming areas with a resilient crop yield with areas that have suffered large crop losses with only minor droughts.
They found that traditionally wealthy coastal areas are just as susceptible to ...
... modifying key processes to improve agriculture, preventing crop losses due to ethylene related processes.
... and ethylene overproduction causes huge economic losses every year," says first author Hong ...
Experts on wheat biotechnology have discovered a gene that will make bread wheat capable of resisting stripe rust, a fungus that causes crop losses in many states.
... year might cause up to 50 percent crop losses in some parts of the world.
"We don't want to suggest that the sky is falling, but major losses could occur if the right set of conditions converges," ...
... costs of food and lumber production. The authors estimate annual crop losses in the United Kingdom due to alien arthropods at €2.8 billion (about $3.7 billion); other studies ...
