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Botany

A Brief Study of Ethnobotany

The Definition and Origins of the Investigation of Indigenous Plants With its roots in botany, ethnobotany has recently become a focus of interest since the renewed interest in medicinal plant use; however, its origins date...

Cracking crop genomes for food security

Exclusive By Massie Santos Ballon, Cleantech Group Experts say more investment in plant science research, such as the wheat breakthrough, is crucial to future crop productivity. By publishing a physical map of the largest wheat...

New NIAB chief executive applauds NFU call to back food security research

Dr Tina Barsby, recently appointed chief executive of Cambridge-based National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB), has welcomed calls at the Conservative Party Conference from NFU President Peter Kendall for a fundamental...

Botanist John Heslop-Harrison believed to have planted 'discoveries'

He was the botanist who earned acclaim with the discovery of dozens of rare plants in his beloved Scottish isles. In the placid world of botany the name of Professor John Heslop-Harrison generated a frisson of excitement...

Ag sciences college viewed as blueprint

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sep. 22--As colleges and departments at the UA begin to examine ways to slim down and refine their missions as part of a major institutional shake-up, campus leaders are embracing one college...

Frontrunners in Securing and Increasing Yield in Crops

Posted on: Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 09:00 CDT GHENT, Belgium, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BASF Plant Science and Monsanto started to jointly address this challenge 18 months ago as the companies announced a...

Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)

Sep 16, 2008

Program Solicitation NSF 08-607 Replaces Document(s): NSF 06-581 Full Proposal Target Date(s): Changes have been made to the focus areas within the Genome-Enabled Plant Research (GEPR), Transferring Research from Model...

Producers Warned over Fusarium Head Blight in Grain

CANADA - Swine producers in Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan are being advised to have wheat that will be fed to swine tested for the presence of deoxynivalenol, or DON, the mycotoxin that is produced by fusarium...

Enterprise Rent-A-Car's Pat Farrell Addresses Corporate Responsibility

When I was asked if I’d like to speak with Dr. Richard Sayre, a leading biofuels researcher who was recently named director of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Danforth Plant Science Center...

Tahitian vanilla originated in Maya forests, says UC Riverside botanist

EUREKALERT Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala iqbal@ucr.edu University of California - Riverside Team led by Pesach Lubinsky identifies enigmatic orchids origins; traces its Pacific voyage via Spanish and French trading ships Pesach...

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