Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed new methods to increase sesame crop yields while improving the seeds' nutritional quality. As part of the research, the university's agricultural researcher Zvi Peleg tested ...
Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defence when their survival depends on it. The findings published in the open-access scientific journal eLife could be used to engineer crops that combine ...
About 30 percent of the major global cereal crops – rice, wheat and corn -- may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers' fields, according to UNL research published this week in Nature Communications. These findings ...
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The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says abundant snow cover in much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba should provide the protection necessary to allow cereal crops planted last fall to survive the winter. Figures released by ...
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The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that harvests grain crops. The name derives from the fact that it combines three separate operations, reaping, threshing, and winnowing, into a single process. Among the crops harvested ...
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