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Tag Archives: nitrogen
Monsanto Admits: 1. We Don’t Need Genetic Engineering, 2. We Don’t Need Monsanto
Originally posted on Volatility:
> Recently Wired magazine ran a Monsanto infomercial touting its alleged change of strategic course on vegetables. Monsanto, through its subsidiaries Seminis and others, is selling a line of high-end conventional vegetables dolled up as some kind of high-tech breakthrough. Contrary…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged allergy, America, Asia, biofortification, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, broccoli, Bt crop, commodity crop, corn, cotton, crop, crop variety, DNA, drought, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, fruit, fruit variety, genetic modification, germplasm, glucoraphanin, glyphosate, Golden Rice, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, history, human, insecticide, knowledge, label, lettuce, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, Monsanto, nitrogen, nutrition, onion, organic, pepper, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, rice, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, salt, seed, selective breeding, Seminis, soya, tomato, trade, transport, vegetable, vegetable variety, watermelon, weed, wild vegetable
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Making grass greener: CIAT breeds tropical pasture that suppresses greenhouse gas emissions
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Guillermo Sotelo of CIAT’s entomology team, working with brachiaria grass in a greenhouse at the institution’s headquarters in Colombia (picture credit: CIAT/Neil Palmer). ‘. . . On 13 September, researchers announced that they have bred…
New pollution-reducing technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air
Originally posted on AgScience:
A major new technology has been developed by The University of Nottingham, which enables all of the world’s crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than expensive and environmentally damaging fertilisers. The development has been…
Posted in knowledge transfer
Tagged bacterium, biotechnology, crop, knowledge, nitrogen, research, symbiosis
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Tilapia and tomatoes farmed together in a sustainable setting
Originally posted on The Coastal House:
fis.com reports: The Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin is growing tomatoes and fish together, since it has been found that dirty water from the fish tanks can provide nutrients to the tomato…
Posted in fish, horticulture
Tagged aquaculture, crop, fertiliser, finfish, fruit, garden, greenhouse, livestock, mammal, nitrogen, plant_dicot, ruminant, sustainable, tilapia, tomato, vertebrate, waste
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Fertilized World…Finding A Balance
Originally posted on ECO-opia:
A Mixed Blessing If we don’t watch out, agriculture could destroy our planet. Here’s how to grow all the food we need with fewer chemicals. By Dan Charles Source link: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/fertilized-world/charles-text?src=longreads&buffer_share=96cbd N.…
Posted in ecology, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged conservation, crop, eutrophic, fertiliser, nitrogen, photosynthesis, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollution
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The High Cost of Cheap Nitrogen
Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
West Fertilizer Plant Explosion. Source: The New Yorker. The explosion of the fertilizer factory in West, Texas, earlier this month was lost amid discussion of the Boston Marathon bombing. Yet the tragic explosion highlights…
Posted in ecology, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged algae, crop, duckweed, eutrophic, fertiliser, nitrogen, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollution, river, sea, soil, water, water plant, waterway
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10 Things I Didn’t Know About Nitrogen Fertilizer
Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
I recently read this brief history of the use of nitrogen fertilizer, and it was so interesting to learn more about this crucial agricultural input! In my agricultural economics classes, we often use…
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Tagged crop, crop rotation, fertiliser, history, knowledge, nitrogen, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, research, symbiosis
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Genetically modified rice
Rice (Oryza sativa) is a staple food for many millions of people. No surprise, then, that rice is of interest for research into genetic modification (GM). GM rice isn’t yet grown commercially but that time may come. Adam Barclay and … Continue reading
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Tagged biofortification, biosafety, biotechnology, crop, development, disease, drought, food, genetic modification, glyphosate, Golden Rice, grain, herbicide, herbicide resistance, International Rice Research Institute, Monsanto, nitrogen, nutrition, pest, pesticide, plant_monocot, research, rice, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, salt, staple food, Syngenta
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