The world's largest scientific repository of fruits and berries, outside St Petersburg, Russia, could be bulldozed later this year to make way for new homes. Won't survive the bulldozers (Image: Chip Litherland/The New York Times/Redux/Eyevine) This week Cary Fowler, director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome, Italy, called for scientists to intervene to [...]
Scientists have sequenced the DNA of this Lovell peach tree at Clemson University. (Credit: Image courtesy of Clemson University) ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2010) — As peach trees go, it doesn't look much different from its kin at the Clemson University Musser Fruit Research Farm, but appearances can be deceiving. This one, a Lovell variety, has [...]
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 [...]
(Reuters) – A Web application that alerts wine grape farmers when their vines are thirsty has won first place in a competition to spur entrepreneurs in the investment-starved water sector, organizers said on Monday. Fruition Sciences, which operates in both California and France, came first among 50 teams in Imagine H2O's global competition aimed at [...]
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 [...]
Simulation of bean root systems showing how altered root growth angles lead to deep or shallow soil exploration. (Credit: Jonathan Lynch, Penn State) ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2010) — Root systems are the basis of the second Green Revolution, and the focus on beans and corn that thrive in poor growing conditions will help some of [...]
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Climate change has affected Kenyan coffee production through unpredictable rainfall patterns and excessive droughts, making crop management and disease control a nightmare, a researcher said on Thursday. Intermittent rainfall in the 2007/08 crop year, for example, caused a terrible bout of the Coffee Berry Disease that cut Kenyan output 23 [...]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2010) — There is good news for coffee lovers and growers worldwide: A predator for the devastating coffee berry borer has just been discovered in Africa. Looking at coffee berries in Western Kenya, Dr. Juliana Jaramillo from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya, Dr. Eric Chapman from the [...]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2010) — Plant scientists at the University of York have published the first genetic map of the medicinal herb Artemisia annua. The map is being used to accelerate plant breeding of Artemisia and rapidly develop the species into a high-yielding crop. This development is urgently needed to help meet escalating demand for [...]
Forest in Finland. (Credit: iStockphoto/David Navrátil) ScienceDaily (Jan. 13, 2010) — Forests in northern areas are stunted, verging on the edge of survival. It has been anticipated that climate change improves their growth conditions. A study published in Forest Ecology and Management journal shows that due to their genetic characteristics trees are unable to properly [...]
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