The report provides some details of the 29% chunk of deforestation due to agricultural crops, highlighting the crops with the highest contributions – soybean (19%), maize (11%), oil palm (8% %), rice (6%) and sugarcane (5%).
Recent media coverage of Prop 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, which would permit companies to label foods made with genetically engineered (GE) crops, highlights the gulf between citizens demanding the right to know what's in our food and corporations desperate to keep the public in the dark.
This year, biographies are especially strong, with the best among the current crop highlighted below.
Sarto et al. (2016) verified that the brachiaria fertilization with Si positively influenced the efficiency in the water use and the CO2 assimilation rate of the crop, highlighting the relevance of the soil fertilization with this element.
But rising tensions between traditional farmers and the state's newest cash crop highlight the problems with the agriculture industry's reliance on a mostly undocumented workforce.
A literature review of energy crop costs highlighted the wide range of plants suitable as bioenergy crops.
From the responses citing willingness to consider SRC or miscanthus, 'profitability of the crop' is highlighted as a key influence, followed by 'market for the crop' and 'time to financial return'.
This paper explores these issues in the context of Asia's rapidly growing seed industry, with illustrations from seed markets for maize and several other crops, to highlight current gaps in the metrics used to analyze performance, competition, and innovation.
We discuss the advantages of various biotechnological approaches to improve crops and highlight the contribution of genomics and functional genomics in this field.
In this review, we provide an overview of carotenoid biosynthesis, degradation, and accumulation in horticultural crops and highlight recent achievements in our understanding of carotenoid metabolic regulation in vegetables, fruits, and flowers.
