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PS Gahlaut Shares Effective Weed Control Strategies for Maximizing Millet
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29: In the ever-changing vista of modern agriculture, the quest for maximizing crop yield while minimizing resource input remains paramount. Millets, a highly varied group of nutrition rich grasses grown as course cereal crops around the world, face the perennial cha
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Sindica - A Novel, Patented Post-emergence Herbicide for Sugarcane from At
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 14: Atul Ltd (Atul) is in the process of launching its novel and patented formulation, Sindica, a post-emergence herbicide with outstanding efficacy against major weeds on the sugarcane crop. This unique formulation is a combination of 2,4-D Sodium, Metrib
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Study highlights significance of grasses in preventing climate change
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
According to recent research small grasses, in addition to trees, have a significant role in carbon capture that is more significant than previously thought.
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Study sheds light on role of grasses in climate change control
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The rising impact of global warming has led initiatives to counteract dangerous trends, often by planting trees to trap and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Risk of wildfire spreading increases where trees, shrubs replace grasses
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Over the last decade, an average of over 61,000 wildfires have burnt 7.2 million acres per year in the United States. When a wildfire begins to expand, the firefighting work is complicated by challenges such as spot fires, which occur when winds lift lofted sparks and start new fires outside
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Polarity proteins in grass shape efficient "breathing" pores: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Grasses have "respiratory pores" (called stomata) that open and close to regulate the uptake of carbon dioxide for photosynthesis on the one hand and water loss through transpiration on the other.
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Research: Polarity proteins in grass shape efficient "breathing" pores
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Grasses have "respiratory pores" (called stomata) that open and close to regulate the uptake of carbon dioxide for photosynthesis on the one hand and water loss through transpiration on the other.
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Grasslands can be managed to benefit biodiversity and soil health: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Grazed grassland makes up a large proportion of the British countryside and is vital to farming and rural communities. This land can be perceived as only being about food production, but this study gives more evidence that it could be key to increasing biodiversity and soil health.
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Researchers show that plant water stress, not termites cause mysterious ci
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Scientists have puzzled over the origin of Namibia's fairy circles for nearly half a century. It boiled down to two main theories: either termites were responsible, or plants were somehow self-organizing. Now, researchers from the University of Gottingen, benefitting from two exceptionally g
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A festival in Nepal to stop bedwetting in children
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhaktapur [Nepal], July 27 (ANI): As soon as the effigy of demon deity Ghantakarna falls down sending plumes of smoke into the air with sounds of burning grasses, parents carry their children and make them jump across the fire holding them tightly.
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Biofuels can greatly reduce carbon emissions: Study
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Beer-Sheva [Israel], Mar 10 (ANI): Biomass fuels derived from various grasses could significantly mitigate global warming by reducing carbon, according to a long-term field study by a group of researchers.
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