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abiotic - Absence of living organisms. [FAO]

News archive for abiotic.

Farmers Demand the Shelving of Bio-Safety Bill  -  Aug 19, 2007
AllAfrica.com,According to Kari, diseases and abiotic factors such as drought, soil pH and poor plant and animal genotypes hamper profitable agricultural production in

Grape Genetics Unit has new research leader  -  Aug 2, 2007
Good Fruit Grower,His research interests are molecular breeding and functional genomics of grapes in relation to tolerance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress.

African GM crop is maize virus resistant  -  Aug 16, 2007
Science Daily (press release)It covers all infectious agents that attack plants and abiotic disorders, but does not include herbivory by ... > full article Genetically modified food

NDSU Corn Breeding Program an important part in state's corn industry  -  Aug 17, 2007
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide,The challenge for Carena is to identify early maturing products with high yields and starch content under abiotic stresses, mainly drought.

Nanotechnology assembly with living materials  -  Aug 15, 2007
Nanowerk LLC,...scientists so far have designed and created simple systems that could mimic natural functions by connecting biological components to abiotic materials

Enter your E-mail Id  -  Aug 16, 2007
Checkbiotech.org (press release),...to abiotic stresses such as drought, and we need to test how plants respond to water stress in the more relevant context of field conditions," he says.

ACPFG gets set to deliver  -  Aug 14, 2007
Australian Life Scientist,Other projects the centre is working on include transcript profiling of tolerant and sensitive responses to abiotic stresses, cloning of stress tolerance

New Low-cost Technology Counters Deadly Aflatoxin, Increases ...  -  Jul 27, 2007
Science Daily (press release)CIMMYT researchers have been working at combining biotic and abiotic stress resistance to identify stress-tolerant maize lines or hybrids that have a

Environmentalism and Post-modernism  -  Aug 8, 2007
The Conservative Voice,Still, the "Law of the Minimum" - that there is a limit to human population growth and that this barrier is related to the biotic and abiotic variables of

Legon Receives $5m Grant  -  Aug 7, 2007
Modern Ghana,...to breed West Africa food crops for increased yield and food security by incorporating genes for tolerance or resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.

PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS ON THE OCCASION OF SPECIAL LECTURE ON ...  -  Aug 6, 2007
Press Information Bureau (press release),...the looming threats of global warming and climate change; emergence of new pests and diseases; production losses due to biotic and abiotic causes;

Making proteins without amino acids  -  Jul 31, 2007
spectroscopyNOW.com (subscription),The researchers highlight the fact that the starting materials are readily available and inexpensive and that the reaction itself is the shortest abiotic

Full Text  -  Jul 26, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)...their carrying capacities in response to perturbation, or as their carrying capacities shift in response to changing biotic and abiotic influences.

Evogene and CIRAD Expand Their Cotton Collaboration  -  Jul 24, 2007
Earthtimes.orgEvogene's current product development portfolio includes such traits as: abiotic stress tolerance and yield, enhancement of cotton fiber quality,

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