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Electron microscopy enabled researchers to see for the first time how a bacteria that kills grape vines is able to move through the plants at the cell level. (Credit: (Photo courtesy of Texas AgriLife Research))

ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2010) — Like a band of detectives surveying the movement of a criminal, researchers using photographic technology have [...]

Television crews stand outside the Global Seed Vault before the opening ceremony in Longyearbyen February 26, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Bob Strong

(Reuters) – A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said on Thursday.

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Rows of hillside vineyards above Napa Valley. (Credit: iStockphoto/Hilary Brodey)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2010) — "Green" labels do not pack the same wallop for California wines that they do for low-energy appliances, organically grown produce and other environmentally friendly products, but it's not because there's anything wrong with the wine, a new UCLA-led study has found.

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Throughout America's Rocky Mountain West, rivers and streams are getting hotter and drier, presenting new challenges for trout already struggling with road building, habitat fragmentation, pollution and other man-made disturbances. Pictured: A brook trout swims in a native stream.
Eric Engbretson, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Scientists believe that the nearly 5-degree Fahrenheit temperature increase forecasted for [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2010) — A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made [...]

All-oat or all-barley breads that ARS scientists are developing may offer a different array of vitamins, antioxidants, fiber, protein, and other healthful components than that in whole-wheat breads. (Credit: Photo by Peggy Greb.)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2010) — Delicious new all-oat or all-barley breads might result from laboratory experiments now being conducted by Agricultural Research Service [...]

ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2010) — In the last fifty years, the Philippines has more than tripled its rice yield, while the world average rice yield has increased only about 2.3 times.

Despite being criticized as a poor rice producer because of its status as the world's biggest rice importer, the Philippines has actually done remarkably well [...]

ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2010) — Despite good intentions, the push to privatize government functions and insistence upon "free trade" that is too often unfair has caused declining food production, increased poverty and a hunger crisis for millions of people in many African nations, researchers conclude in a new study.

De-husking local rice. (Credit: Image courtesy of [...]

Bread baked with white rye flour, which is flour made from the inner, white part of the rye kernel, leads to better insulin and blood sugar levels compared with wheat bread with rye bran. (Credit: iStockphoto)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2010) — Wholegrain bread is good and good for you, as most people know. But it is [...]

Fish at a fish market. Seafood is a significant source of protein for nearly 3 billion people and is the planet's most highly traded food commodity, contributing to the livelihoods of more than 560 million people. But a lack of coordinated policy threatens global seafood supplies. (Credit: iStockphoto/Thaddeus Robertson)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2010) — Increased aid [...]