An ever - expanding global population will require an increase in food production and crop yields, and that is only going to be possible through higher
fertilizer use in agriculture.
They are
also used in agriculture, for filming and numerous other applications that require cheap and extensive aerial surveillance.
Many factors enter into fossil
fuel use in agriculture — fertilizer, transportation of workers, home heating of farm families.
``... permafrost is melting» While this poses some practical problems for people, melting permafrost also creates positives, with new areas being opened up for
human use in agriculture.
The introduction of spinetoram
for use in agriculture resulted in the receipt of a Presidential Green Chemistry Award3 in 2008.
At the same time, food that's harvested but lost or wasted uses 25 percent of
water used in agriculture and requires cropland the size of China to be grown.
Now a research team led by a scientist at the University of California, Riverside has sequenced the genomes of five nematodes, specifically, microscopic round worms likely to be involved in parasitism and widely
used in agriculture as an organic pesticide.
For more on efficient water
use in agriculture in dry regions, click back to my post on the pioneering work on drip irrigation by Daniel Hillel and read about how solar - powered pumping systems and drip irrigation are improving incomes and lives in sub-Saharan Africa.
Chlorine,
commonly used in the agriculture industry to decontaminate fresh produce, can make foodborne pathogens undetectable, according to new research published in mBio, an open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
Obviously, finding an affordable and smart solution to food waste will help extend the life of our landfills, reduce methane emissions from rotting produce, and go a long way toward reducing the amount of fossil fuels
used in our agriculture sector as well as eliminating hunger.
«It also aims to create an awareness of the new
technologies used in agriculture — all essential to the expansion and modernization path upon which the sector has embarked.
Today, the adoption of high - yielding, uniform cultivars and varieties has led to a considerable reduction in the number of plants and
animals used in agriculture.
They focused on reactions that create alkoxysilanes — a common ingredient in ceramics and in organic
compounds used in agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
They found no resistance from the sites in Greater Manchester compared to 1.7 % resistance detected in West Yorkshire, implicating
fungicide use in agriculture.
The use of certain compounds in agriculture, notably difenoconazole, propiconazole, epoxiconazole, bromuconazole and tebuconazol are particularly likely to lead to resistance, yet are
freely used in agriculture.
«Despite the positive results shown through research, the successful transition from nondegradable plastic mulch to biodegradable plastic
mulch use in agriculture, ultimately, will be grower driven,» said Jeremy Cowan, lead author of a study appearing in HortTechnology.
The nitrogen fertilizers
traditionally used in agriculture have polluting effects both in water and in the atmosphere, this can degrade soils and contribute to global warming.
These unfolding discoveries suggest that complex biology is at work, leading the EPA's advisors to say that the «potential scale» of
RNA used in agriculture «warrants exploration of the potential for unintended ecological effects.»
«The report focuses on the use of GM and cloned animals in agriculture and biotechnology, however all transgenic animals,
whether used in agriculture or for medical research are at present covered by the legislation in the Animals in Scientific Procedures Act.
11 slides covering Using plant hormones: - State the
hormones used in agriculture and horticulture; - Describe how these hormones can be used; - Observe and evaluate the effects of plant hormones.
Convincing proof that the nicotine - based neurotoxin imidacloprid, still widely
used in agriculture throughout Europe, is the main culprit of colony collapse disorder among European honey bees has not yet been found, says Dr. Tjeerd Blacquiere, a Dutch bee specialist of Wageningen University's Plant Research International.
For this purpose, we can start with a
greenhouse used in agriculture where sewage sludge or pig manure are drying, and measure the amount of some GHGs inside and outside after passing through a large surface area of photocatalyst exposed to sunlight.
The introduction of spinosad
for use in agriculture resulted in the receipt of a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 1999 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Previous research has shown that foraging honey bees that ingested neonicotinoid pesticides, crop insecticides that are
commonly used in agriculture, were less likely to return to their home nest, leading to a decrease in foragers.
Tower CSP (concentrated solar power) is a thermal form of solar that uses reflected sunlight off mirrors (heliostats) that track the sun to remain focused onto a receiver at the top of a tower, where the reflected and concentrated sunlight, or solar flux, heats a molten salt mix of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate (common chemicals
also used in agriculture) to about 565 C.
For example, the pesticide lindane,
used in agriculture as well as to treat head lice, did not accumulate in fish but did build up in Canadian wolves that had fed on caribou, which in turn had been eating lichen.
Schiller realized that the TALEN protein, derived from a wheat pathogen already
widely used in the agriculture industry to genetically modify plants, described in one paper might be perfect after a few tweaks for use in HIV therapy.
«We could feed more people, reduce the scourge of plant diseases, minimize the water
used in agriculture... the possibilities are really exciting for anyone interested in the environment, sustainability, the future of food and open agriculture.»
The original studies that supposedly showed that glyphosate was not toxic to human health have been revealed to have withheld key data that showed just how toxic it really has been since the beginning of its approval for
use in agriculture.