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Seeds to Save a Species
Deep Storage North of mainland Norway, two security doors and three airlocks protect the cave's contents. Courtesy Mari Terre/Global Crop Diversity Trust Far Afield Ken Street gathering wheat in...
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Rust in the Food Supply
Yellow (Stripe) Wheat Rust courtesy Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Food-borne illness frequently grabs headlines: tomatoes, peanut butter and, most recently, pistachios have all made people sick from...
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Genetically Engineered Corn Sends Out Chemical SOS When Attacked
Western Corn Rootworm Rootworms to the rescue! What do you do when you're under attack? Call for help, naturally. Unfortunately, if you're an ear of corn, and you're being attacked by parasitic beetle...
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The Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World
Desert Oasis The Sahara Forest Project will use concentrating solar power to provide energy to greenhouses in the desert. Paul Wootton Today's crops crisscross the globe: Mexico's tomatoes end up on...
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Judge Bans Future Plantings of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Throwing...
Sugar Beet Half the U.S. sugar supply comes from sugar beets like this one. via Flickr/ elizabeth.mcquistonReaders with a sweet tooth had better start stockpiling candy -- first Choc Finger started...
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Russian Seed Bank, Saved During WWII, Fights to Save Land From Developers
Pavlosk Station Plants Vavilov Institute of Plant IndustryDuring the siege of Leningrad, 12 scientists starved to death rather than eat the grains stored at Pavlosk Agricultural Station, the world's...
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Tomato Genome Decoded, Will Seed Development of Tastier, Fleshier Fruits
Ripe and Juicy Manjith Kainickara via Flickr A relatively small cluster of genetic information, some of it dating to 60 million years ago, endows the staple fruit of summer with its taste and texture....
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Food-borne illness frequently grabs headlines: tomatoes, peanut butter and, most recently, pistachios have all made people sick from salmonella and caused headaches for…
View ArticleGenetically Engineered Corn Sends Out Chemical SOS When Attacked
What do you do when you're under attack? Call for help, naturally. Unfortunately, if you're an ear of corn, and you're being attacked by parasitic beetle larvae, you have…
View ArticleThe Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World
Today's crops crisscross the globe: Mexico's tomatoes end up on your plate, our wheat heads to Africa. As a result, the challenge of growing twice as much food by 2050 to…
View ArticleJudge Bans Future Plantings of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Throwing...
Readers with a sweet tooth had better start stockpiling candy -- first Choc Finger started hoarding all the world's chocolate, and now it seems the U.S. sugar supply may be…
View ArticleRussian Seed Bank, Saved During WWII, Fights to Save Land From Developers
During the siege of Leningrad, 12 scientists starved to death rather than eat the grains stored at Pavlosk Agricultural Station, the world’s first seed bank. According to an…
View ArticleTomato Genome Decoded, Will Seed Development of Tastier, Fleshier Fruits
A relatively small cluster of genetic information, some of it dating to 60 million years ago, endows the staple fruit of summer with its taste and texture. The secrets of the…
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Insurance Agents Are Pretty Freaked Out About Climate Change
Ominous CloudsPato Garza/FlickrCC by 2.0Rarely does a document prepared by an insurance group read like an apocalyptic screenplay. But it does happen. In this case, Lloyds, a storied insurance market...
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On The Farm, Algae May Be The New Corn
Agriculture may make the switch from corn to algae in their feedSource: Wikipedia; Modifications: Jason TetroNothing quite beats the taste of corn of the cob in summer or the delightful yellow offering...
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