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Transgenic Crops Can Pass On Their Traits To Weeds
Transgenic crops are engineered with specialized trait like herbicide resistance. For years, scientists have known that transgenic crops can pass on their traits to nearby weeds through hybridization....
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Enset, A Banana That Bears No Fruit But It’s Abundant Source Of Food
Enset is a banana plant that is quite different from the fruit bearing banana that each one of us is familiar with. It bears no fruit but nevertheless yields abundant source of food. It has been a...
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Genetically Engineered Canola Flourishing As Weeds
Canola, whose seeds are pressed to make the popular cooking oil, is a type of oilseed rape developed by breeders in Canada. In the US, it is grown mainly in North Dakota and Minnesota through...
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Garden Plots Are Flourishing In Paris
Gardening in the middle of the French metropolis is an idea that arose in 1999 when a group of activists planted an illegal garden on a former industrial site . It became an official project called...
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Fire Orchid Propagation, A Unique Plant Collection
Fire Orchid, comes from the genus of Renanthera, is a beautiful plant and as it connotes, it has intensely red flowers. It is currently used as a parent plant in breeding bright red conventional and...
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The Potential Of Avocado Oil In Controlling Vegetable Pests
A natural insect deterrent found in avocado could potentially reduce the need for more toxic chemical pesticides used in agriculture. An oil contained in avocados could deter insect infestation by the...
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Using Minus One Element Technique In Soil Nutrient Deficiency Determination
Plants always show with utmost accuracy if the soil has the required nutrients for their normal growth or it does not have any. Any deficiency in nutrients, plants usually manifest them by the...
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Alliums Have Nurtured A Unique Defense System
Among those plants that originated from a very tough environment in Central Asia are the garlic and onion. They developed to produce a sulfur based chemical defense system . They are incendiary in the...
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The Potential Benefits Of Herbs Gardening
Planting your own collection of herbs, you can save money on buying them from the grocery store while having the added benefit of freshness. Most people think of herb propagation they automatically...
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The Potential Benefits of Vegetable Gardening
Vegetable gardening is a rewarding experience. With the costs of living rising at an unpredictable level, it would be possible to save money, augment your income and directly benefit your family’s...
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