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Technology is making food that eats you after you eat it. -- Michael Lipsey
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Technology is making food that eats you after you eat it. -- Michael Lipsey
would you rather have goth girls but no more femboys or unlimited halloween and no fungicide?
goth girls but no femboys
halloween but no fungicide
Opening a clamshell of berries and seeing them coated in fuzzy mold is a downer. And it's no small problem. Gray mold and other fungi, which
Gray mold and other fungi, which cause fruit to rot, lead to significant economic losses and food waste. Now, researchers report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that compounds from sunflower crop waste prevented rotting in blueberries. They suggest the food industry could use these natural compounds to protect against post-harvest diseases. Sunflowers are cultivated around the world for their seeds and oil, but the flower stems—known as receptacles—are generally considered to be a waste product. Noting that this crop is particularly resistant to many plant diseases, Xiao-Dong Luo, Yun Zhao and colleagues decided to investigate whether its receptacles might contain chemical constituents responsible for this protective effect. They also wanted to find out if these compounds could be used to fend off fungal plant pathogens in fruit, as a way to avoid the toxicity and resistance associated with chemical fungicides.
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Researchers discover eco-friendly fungicide alternative
A material that could replace current fungicides (i.e., anti-fungal pesticides), increase food security, and help protect wildlife has been discovered. A recent investigation undertaken by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) revealed that the UK is still using 36 harmful pesticides that have been banned in other European countries, with 13 described as "highly hazardous" that have links to water contamination, cancer, infertility, and other illnesses. Published in Green Chemistry, researchers at the University of Nottingham have completed a successful field trial of a material they have developed to help to protect crops from fungi. Simon Avery, professor of eukaryotic microbiology in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, said, "The test material is not toxic but works by passively resisting attachment of fungal spores to protect surfaces from fungal infection, including crop surfaces. Results from this first field trial with wheat are particularly encouraging as there is a lot of scope to optimize further the material properties for crop protection."
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Hii im recently hyperfixated with mushrooms and i want to know if you have information or good pages/authors to read about innovations in the uses of fungi in our everyday life, like for bioremediation.
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i actually do not have extensive knowledge of fungi in bioremediation, so i unfortunately can't supply any sources for you to read about it. i'd love to learn more, so if any of my followers know of pages / authors that have written on this topic, please send it my way. ^^
Graphis glaucescens
This script lichen looks less like script and more like the tunnels left by burrowing worms, but that’s ok, they are still beautiful. Those long, distinctive apothecia that give script lichens their distinctive pattern are known as lirellae. The lirellae in G. glaucescens are white or pale gray, oblong, occasionally branched, and particularly curvy. They are scattered across a pale, powdery thallus surface. G. glaucescens grows on deciduous tree bark in tropical regions on either side of the equator. Graphis happens to be the genus with the largest number of known lichen species within it. Go out side, find a smooth-barked tree, and chances are you will find a Graphis lichen growing on it somewhere. And if you are in a tropical area, who knows? It might be this one. (the answer is me. I would know.)
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As it happens, more than a few of today's crop protection products are obtained from natural sources or are so thoroughly tested by time that they are considered traditional practices. This means they are commonly found in use on farms that specialize in growing organic produce.Those of us working i...
Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:
The need for effective crop protection products has steadily grown as rising global temperatures have expanded the range of many pests and blights. Just last summer in the Netherlands, a farmer told me he was seeing an insect in his fields he had never seen before.
Our team researched it and found the pest was well known in Brazil – Tuta absoluta is a miner fly whose larvae make corridors in the leaves by eating the cells – and becoming a problem in northern climates as a result of warmer winters. One of our goals as an industry is to provide farmers with the safest and best means of keeping threats like these at bay.
When viewed at macroscopic scale, advances in agronomy clearly represent an important part of the solution to climate change. The latest crop protection products address climate change directly – by enabling farmers to produce more food per unit of land than ever before in the history of agriculture. This is critical if we hope to bring a halt to the expansion of human activity into regions such as the Amazon rainforest – a precious natural resource that serves a higher common purpose as a carbon sink and biodiversity preserve than as a cornfield.