ROME, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Italy's Global Crop Diversity Trust says it has collected about 53,000 seed samples of the 100,000 varieties of food crops it wants to save from extinction.
... year to ensure that one day all of humanity's existing food crop varieties would be safely protected ... heat recorded over the last 100 years. Crop diversity will be required by scientists to breed new ...
Those highly publicised efforts to produce ethanol fuel from wheat straw, corn cobs, and other crop waste - rather than food crops - appear to be stalling as biofuel companies face ...
... fields boosts the nutritional value of an important food a crop. Application of two common herbicides ... 22 issue of ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication. In the new ...
... , even in the face of rising fuel and food prices. Many food crops that thrive in specific types ... distribution elsewhere. And, he said, those who buy local food to support nearby growers likely would ...
... world. New research indicates that rising background levels of ozone in the atmosphere are a likely contributor to the problem, lowering the yield of important food crops, such as wheat and soybeans.
... sugary feedstock."
With a more advanced pre-treatment, biohydrogen can even be produced from the waste from food-crop cultivation, such as corn stalks and husks. Tens of millions of tonnes of this ...
... General Virology. Maize streak virus (MSV) causes the main virus disease of Africa's most important food crop. By comparing the genome of the virus to those of its less harmful relatives, ...
A global search begins for food crops carrying traits that are able to withstand future changes to the climate.
Rising food prices have slowed the momentum of biofuels, prompting scientists to search for alternatives that won't tap the world's food crops.
Rising food prices have slowed the momentum of biofuels, prompting scientists to search for alternatives that won't tap the world's food crops.
... temperature and it will take decades to develop new food crop varieties that can better withstand a warmer ... hundreds of millions of additional people looking for food because they won't be able to find ...
... to empower wiser choices by countries about whether to invest in ethanol or biodiesel, which crops to plant, and how best to use existing farmlands. Although agricultural biofuels have been sharply ...
By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and North America could be cooled by up to 1°C during the summer growing season, say researchers from the University ...
Global yields of most biofuels crops, including corn, rapeseed and wheat, have been overestimated by 100 to 150 percent or more, suggesting many countries need to reset their expectations of ...
