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Expanding Texas’ integrated pest management teachings - AgriLife Today

Pest management outreach to both rural and urban audiences in Texas will be expanded and improved thanks to a federal grant.

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Three Texas A&M AgriLife industrial hemp field days set - AgriLife Today

Three industrial hemp field programs will be held on Sept. 27, Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 near Lubbock, Chillicothe and Muleshoe.

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Special Report: BP gambles big on fast transition from oil to renewables

Deep in the Oman desert lies one of BP's more lucrative projects, a mass of steel pipes and cooling towers that showcases the British energy giant's pioneering natural gas extraction technology.

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Scientists discover hormonal regulatory module for root elongation

In the future, agricultural crop production will have to manage with less and less nitrogen fertilisation. The goal must therefore be to increase...

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Government gives green light to genome-edited wheat trial

BBSRC funded UK research institute, Rothamsted Research, has been granted permission by Defra to run a series of field trials of wheat that has been genome edited.

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Nitrogen-efficient wheats can provide more food with fewer greenhouse gas emissions, new study shows

Scientists used a wild grass trait that inhibits soil microbes from producing environmentally-harmful nitrogen compounds. Widespread use of the new technology could lower global use of fertilizers for wheat crops.

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Satellites measure drought stress in plants with aim of increasing crop yields - Phys.org

With a satellite system that measures drought stress in plants, two researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI, have now founded the spin-off ConstellR. Their technology enables the agricultural sector to optim…

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GM crops: Kenya and Nigeria progress as Uganda falters - Alliance for Science

Though several African countries, including Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia, are making tremendous strides in their quest to develop and commercialize genetically modified crops, it’s not the same story in Uganda. Despite very promising initial successes, Ugandan scientists in the East African country have struggled to progress their GM crop research beyond confined field trials (CFTs) […]

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New embryo identification IVF method set to boost cow milk and meat production - thereliablenews

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Research from the University of Kent, the University of Nottingham and L’Alliance Boviteq Inc., has established a method of significantly improving in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in cattle. This breakthrough is set to greatly reduce pregnancy issues in cows, increase overall meat and milk production, and become a platform for further research in …

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MunmuBaram to develop a 1.4 GW floating offshore wind farm in South Korea

The project will be capable of powering over 1 million homes.

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