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Crops Affected by Water Shortage, not Climate Warming

Mila Luleva — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:37:13 +0000

Professor Graeme Hammer, a leading Australian crop scientist at The University of Queensland, developed a complex model which explains how agricultural crop yield will be affected by global warming. The results of his 10 years work was just published in the latest issue of the world’s leading science journal Nature. The article shows evidence that […]

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New Fungus-Derived Biopesticide – a Green Weapon to Protect the Crops

Mila Luleva — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:02:35 +0000

Scientists have recently established that pesticides do not always have to be deadly and chemical. Although slightly more expensive than conventional ones, the new biopesticides, called “Green Muscle” are made from fungi, insects or other plants and are considered to be “the way to go” in the conventional agricultural industry. Yet again, biomimicry has played […]

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Microalgae Biofuel an Alternative to Crop Biofuel

Cristi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:29:11 +0000

Using crops as a source of energy generated in the past years a great controversy. Once because we could use those crops as food for people and second because we use good agriculture lands to generate energy. But what if we could use an alternative to the crops and use smaller areas of lands to generate the same amount of energy?

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