Orphan gene boosts the protein levels of crops
A recent study from Iowa State University shows how a gene, found in a single plant species so far, can ...
Tag: agriculture
Agricultural behaviors recorded in bees for the first time
Cristiano Menezes of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation has discovered farming behaviors in bees, adding them to the list of ...
Florida quarantines farmlands to contain the Oriental Fruit Fly
Florida's farmlands are under attack by a highly destructive pest, the Oriental Fruit Fly, and authorities have quarantined some 85 ...
Crops farmed by leafcutter ants show signs of domestication: Leafcutter ants became farmers 50 million years before humans
Leafcutter ants in South America grow fungus as crops, this has been known for quite a while. But their crops ...
Ever-growing population and climate instability will lead to severe food shortages by 2050
The food industry has become much more efficient in the last few decades as a result of globalization, but also ...
And then I threw it on the ground: first signs of farming come from the middle east, some 23,000 years ago
Who, where and when "invented" farming? A new study pushes back the advent of farming by a couple of thousand ...
Humans bones became lighter and frailer once farming became widespread
Our bones are much lighter and weaker than those of our Paleolithic ancestors (11,000 to 33,000 years ago), but it's ...
The farmers of the future will be all robots
By 2050, world population is expected to rise to nine billion, but the amount of arable land meant to grow ...
Antarctic Ice Collapse Could Devastate Global Food Supply
We've already written about the damage done to the Antarctic ice sheet, and how sadly, its collapse seems irreversible. A ...
Manure was used by European farmers 8000 years ago
A new study has shown that European farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. The Oxford research ...
Cheese has a 7500 year history
Polish researchers have found the earliest evidence of prehistoric cheese-making from a study of 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that are perforated ...
Genetically engineered crops reach 11.5% of the total arable land
The first genetically engineered or biotech food products were released on the market for the first time in 1994. Consumers ...
Pigeon Pea Genome Cracked: Benefits Farming Millions in Asia & Africa
Hyderabad (South India): A team of scientists has claimed to have achieved a major breakthrough by successfully sequencing the genome ...
Surprise In The Organic Orchard — A Healthier Worm In The Apple
Just like you can catch a cold from a virus so can other animals, as well as insects. But ...