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Fungal growth in plants can be inhibited by modified yeast
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
California [US], July 16 (ANI): About 70-80 per cent of crop losses due to microbial diseases are caused by fungi. Fungicides are key weapons in agriculture's arsenal, but they pose environmental risks. Over time, fungi also develop a resistance to fungicides, leading growers on an endless q
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Earth's climate control system got changed due to arrival of land plants:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 16 (ANI): According to the findings of a new study led by researchers at UCL and Yale, the arrival of plants on the land about 400 million years ago might have changed the way the Earth naturally regulates its own climate.
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Amid COVID-19, Samsung Electronics plant in emergency in Vietnam
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 16 (ANI/Global Economic): As Vietnamese institutions decided to close plants due to the spread of COVID-19, Korean companies operating in Vietnam have also been in an emergency.
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YSRCP to raise Visakhapatnam Steel Plant privatisation, special category s
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 16 (ANI): YSRCP parliamentary party leader V Vijayasai Reddy on Thursday informed that his party will raise the issues of privatisation of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) and special category status for Andhra Pradesh during the monsoon session
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Modified yeast inhibits fungal growth in plants: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 15 (ANI): About 70-80 per cent of crop losses due to microbial diseases are caused by fungi. Fungicides are key weapons in agriculture's arsenal, but they pose environmental risks. Over time, fungi also develop a resistance to fungicides, leading growers on an endless q
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Play the Big Game: The BMW X1 20i Tech Edition launched
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], July 15 (ANI/BusinessWire India): BMW India has launched the BMW X1 20i Tech Edition today. The global leader in premium compact sports activity vehicle (SAV) segment is locally produced at BMW Group Plant Chennai, limited units of the exclusive edition can now be
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DS enhances skills of the rubber tappers of Tripura for a sustainable live
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], July 14 (ANI/News Voir): The DS Group is supporting the Rubber Tapper's training project in Tripura under its CSR initiatives. Unskilled & marginal tribal farmers are trained for scientific ways of tapping and processing rubber plants. A scientific approach to
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6 Chinese among 10 killed in vehicle explosion near Pakistan's Dasu hydrop
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kohistan [Pakistan] July 14 (ANI): At least ten people, including six Chinese engineers and two Frontier Corps personnel, lost their lives and several others were injured on Wednesday following a bus explosion. The vehicle was carrying workmen to the Dasu Dam in the Upper Kohistan district o
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New technique reduces nicotine levels, harmful compounds simultaneously in
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Washington [US], July 13 (ANI): North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new technique that can alter plant metabolism. Tested in tobacco plants, the technique showed that it could reduce harmful chemical compounds, including some that are carcinogenic.
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NGT pulls up DJB for 'shirking its responsibility' to control bad odour fr
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up Delhi Jal Board (DJB) after noting that it has failed to control the "bad odour" emanating from a sewage treatment plant (STP) in Kondli area of Delhi.
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Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurates 2 PSA Oxygen Plants at Sir Takhtasinhji hosp
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, and Minister of Chemical and Fertilizers, Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday virtually inaugurated two PSA plants at Sir Takhtasinhji hospital, Bhavnagar in the presence of Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterway
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Oppn to hold 'dharna' on Aug 2-3 against Visakhapatnam Steel Plant privati
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 12 (ANI): In the ongoing Visakhapatnam Steel Plant privatization issue, several parties in Andhra Pradesh on Monday decided to take part in 'dharna' in Delhi on August 2-3.
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