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		<title>Getting to the root of horseradish root problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 55 percent of the horseradish produced in the United States is grown in the Collinsville, Ill., area, the self-proclaimed “Horseradish Capital of the World.” The product is of such high quality that Europeans import it for gourmet and industrial use. But when crop sciences professor Mohammad Babadoost first arrived at the University of Illinois [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German insects can sense earthquakes a day in advance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study has suggested ants are able to sense earthquakes before the Earth even lightly shudders. Short-term earthquake predictions with an advance warning of several hours or days are currently not possible due to both incomplete understanding of the complex tectonic processes and inadequate observations. Abnormal animal behaviors before earthquakes have been reported previously, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian state Goa looks to cashew to green mining pits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cashew, which is distilled to make popular Goan drink feni, also has the power to revitalise the state&#8217;s pits left barren by excessive mining, say agriculturists and scientists. N.P. Singh, director of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) here, said in case mining, now banned by the Supreme Court, is phased out over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A kitchen garden in your room!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A kitchen garden inside your room? Yes, that&#8217;s what the new concept of &#8216;vertical landless farming&#8217; promises where you can grow tomatoes, chillies and small plants inside rooms &#8211; and without any hassles too. New York-based Britta Riley, a woman artist and technologist has devised this system for people living in apartments. Using discarded plastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of chickens, ducks culled in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of infected chickens, ducks and emus have been culled at a state-run poultry farm on Bangalore&#8217;s outskirts to contain the deadly avian (bird) flu, a senior official said Tuesday. &#8220;We have culled about 19,235 chickens, 13,673 ducks and 370 emus at the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) farm and in the neighbourhood at Hesaraghatta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plants boost healing power of anti-fungals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IANS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain plant compounds could help prescription drugs fight severe fungal infections in a more effective way, thanks to unexpected findings. Bruce C. Campbell, formerly of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) under the US Department of Agriculture, and molecular biologist colleague Jong H. Kim, and others found that pairing antifungal medicines with compounds such as thymol, derived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only healthy groundwater ecosystems provide clean groundwater</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two thirds of drinking water in Germany is obtained from groundwater. At the same time groundwater is in no way a lifeless resource with at least 2,000 known species and numerous microorganisms mainly helping to clean the groundwater and improve the quality of drinking water. However, the protection of this habitat has not yet been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lethal new breed of mosquitoes discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entomologists have discovered an unknown but potentially dangerous malaria-transmitting mosquito in western Kenya which prefers to bite people earlier in the evening, soon after sunset. Its DNA also does not match any of the existing malaria-transmitting species. The Anopheles species of mosquitoes which transmits malaria in Africa is already widely studied by researchers. It prefers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Date palm leaves can help purify waste water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 04:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date palm leaves can help remove chemicals like pharmaceuticals and dyes from hospital waste water before it is discharged into the municipal sewers, says a scientist from a university in Oman. Al Said Al Shafey, principal investigator of a project at the chemistry department of Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, has started a research with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3-D Time-Lapse Imaging Captures Twisted Root Mechanics for First Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using an advanced 3-D time-lapse imaging system, a group of physicists and plant biologists from Cornell University and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research have discovered how certain plant roots exhibit powerful mechanical abilities while navigating their environment. The research, published in this week’s online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rotting grain has deprived food to 80 million people in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 36,000 tonnes of grain has gone bad at the various storage facilities of the state-run Food Corp of India (FCI) since 2008, enough to feed 80 million people at a per capita consumption of 440 grams, fresh data reveals. Ironically, the maximum wastage is accounted for in Punjab, otherwise known as India&#8217;s bread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agriculture is the direct driver for worldwide deforestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new synthesis on drivers of deforestation and forest degradation was published during the Bangkok climate change negotiations in September by researchers from Canada and from Wageningen University, Netherlands. The report stresses the importance of knowing what drives deforestation and forest degradation, in order to be able to design and monitor effective REDD+ policies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology for making wood-substitutes developed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A technology for making substitutes for wood from natural fibres like coir and jute for making furniture has been developed in Kerala, an official said. A natural fibre polymer composite christened &#8220;Polycor&#8221; developed here by the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), a composites laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soon, tastier tomatoes with vintage flavour and quality</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2012/06/soon-tastier-tomatoes-with-vintage-flavour-and-quality.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered the genes that influence flavour and colour in wild and traditional tomato varieties. The discovery could make more tomatoes taste like heirlooms, said the international research team headed by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist. The finding has significant implications for the U.S. tomato industry, which annually harvests more than 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farming requires `climate-smart` revolution to sustain future generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report has cautioned that major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption across the world in order to adequately feed future generations. The report suggests that farming must intensify sustainably, waste should be cut and greenhouse gas emissions from farms should be reduced. The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change spent over [...]]]></description>
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