Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Food Crops News 216


Food Crops News 216
, Hoàng Kim, Tin Nông nghiệp Việt Nam
Chào ngày mớiCây Lương thựcHọc mỗi ngày,  Dạy và học 
Update of Food Crops News from 4 May to 6 May, 2014.


Cool, wet weather delays planting of food-to-table and field crops in Lancaster County
Chris Davis, a farmhand for Country Barn Farm Market in Manor Township, shows a handful of soil Monday that has been protected from the cold and ...
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Food security may be increased by new agricultural production modeling
Known as the Geospatial Agricultural Management and Crop Assessment Framework (GAMCAF), the tool brings together crop models that estimate ...
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History to blame for slow crop taming, study says
Examining crop domestication tells us how our ancestors developed food, feed and fibre leading to today's crops and products. Examining crop ...
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GM acceptance in decline as global crop cultivation falls
FoE noted that in 2013, for the first time since GM crops started to be ... "Food and farming should not be in the hands of companies who profit from GM ...
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Daily News
Kilimanjaro Steps Up Pest Control
No sooner had the crops sprouted up than the pests turned on them and ... sorghum seeds from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives.
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Christian Science Monitor
Gloria Henderson gleans satisfaction from sharing fresh food
Gloria Henderson grew up on a farm, always had a love for picking crops, and noticed from early on that produce would get left behind in the field.
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A Coffee Crop Withers
This year, the lean season, when food supplies run out for the poorest farmers, started two months early, according to the Famine Early Warning ...
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Tech Times
Can crops adapt to climate change?
A lot can change in twenty years, including a crop's sensitivity to drought conditions. In the past two decades we have seen a shift from a strong and ...
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International Business Times UK
Nasa to Grow Plants on International Space Station
Nasa to Grow Plants on International Space Station ... plants as Nasa's priority is to learn more about the food safety of crops grown in microgravity.
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Extrusion processing could improve African food security
However, researchers have discovered that these food crops respond well to extrusion processing. “To improve the nutrient intake in regions of Africa ...
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The Nation
'Heat tolerant, insect resilient maize crop may help achieve food security'
The heat tolerant and resilient maize crop can alleviate the hunger and help achieve the food security in the third world countries. This was stated by ...
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Functional crops are coming
COMING SOON: Food products that contain higher levels of phytosterols for reduced cholesterol, crops with higher levels of carotenoids for increased ...
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Are You As Anti-GMO as Chipotle Mexican Grill and Whole Foods Market Make You Believe?
The question of "what's in my food?" should be relatively simple to answer, but thanks to numerous organizations for and against biotech crops, the ...
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Italy says no to GM crops
The Minister of agricultural food and forestry policies comments the refusal from the Lazio TAR of the request against the decree of the 12th of July ...
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Press Herald
Monsanto and Maine: A look at Maine's sometimes fractious relationship with the GMO giant
There he was on the stage at the 2014 Camden Conference, talking food policy ... What are the morals implications of genetically engineering crops?
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Why Hemp, The Sustainable Wonder Crop, Is Sweeping The Nation
Moreover, because the crop improves soil health (see below), farmers can grow food crops immediately after a hemp harvest without a fallow period.
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The Express Tribune
Food security: Heat-tolerant maize can help alleviate hunger
A heat-tolerant maize crop could help alleviate the hunger and achieve food security in less-developed countries, food experts said at a conference on ...
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NEWS

Global
• Climate Change Study Says Biotech Helps Achieve Nitrogen Fertilizer Management

Africa
• Nigeria's Supervising Minister for S&T Acknowledges Need for Biosafety Law
• Kenyan Stakeholders Tell Government Taskforce to Lift GM Food Imports Ban
• Zambia Cotton Board Calls for GM Cotton
• Transgenic Sweet Potato to Battle Virus Diseases in South Africa

Americas
• CAST Releases Issue Paper on GE Food Labeling
• Initiative Creates Team of Engineers, Plant Scientists to Develop Smart Plants
• Sub-Lethal Doses of Herbicide Could Prevent Transgene Escape to Weedy Brassica Species
• Study Finds Plants Send Out Signals that Attract Harmful Bacteria

Asia and the Pacific
• Iran Initiates Field Trial of Insect Resistant Rice and Cotton
• Scientists Identify Molecular Transporters that Drive Plant Responses to Drought and Salinity

Europe
• Fischler: GM Soybean Vital to Egg Producers in Europe
• Tobacco Companies Turn to Biotechnology
• Scientists Seek to Fine Tune Flowering Time

Research
• CAS Scientists Increase Essential Fatty Acid in Rice Bran
• Effects of Seed-Specific Gene Silencing of OsMRP5 Gene in Transgenic Rice
• CryF1 Proteins Has No Effects on Cotesia marginiventris

Beyond Crop Biotech
• International Team Sequences Rainbow Trout Genome
• Potential Pharmaceuticals Derived from Rice Endosperm
• Alginate Gel-Based 3D Cell Culture Developed for Cancer Stem Cell Research 

Research and Development

• Gene Silencing Used to Increase Seed Oil Content in Jatropha curcas
• Improved Xylose Consumption through Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain Evolution
• The Promise of Ethylene-Forming Enzymes (EFE) and the Future of Ethylene Production

News and Trends
• Vietnam Welcomes Gasoline E5 with Ethanol
• Transgenic Poplars (Populus sp.) Developed for Easier Degradation in Biofuel Production
• Biodiesel Use in British Columbia Results in Significant Reduction of Greenhouse Gases

Energy Crops and Feedstocks for Biofuels Production
• Moving Forward by Looking Back: Revisit Macroalgae
• Cynanobacteria: An Alternate to Lignocellulosic Biomass in Biofuel Production
• Enzyme Imbalance in Forbs Affects Glucose Yield for Biofuel Production

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