This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about slowing wind; love and pain; cane toad caviar; shining light inside your body; and more… …
Charging MP3 players with beach towels, carrying brains overseas, flu vaccinations and more. Tim on radio this week.
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about using your beach towel to charge your MP3 player; carrying brains overseas; flu vaccinations; healthy fruit extracts; and more… …
Plants protect plants and triple yields in East Africa
More than 30,000 East African farmers are using plants to protect their corn (maize) crops from insect and weed attack. The crop protection strategy was developed by Kenyan and UK …
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Worst locust plague in 30 years this summer
Victorian farmers are in a phony war right now – but in spring the invasion will come. We’re likely to see the worst locust plague for 30 years. David Hunter will tell the conference how plagues occur …
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Can we feed nine billion people by 2050?
IUPAC Plenary Six and Seven, Wednesday 9:45am Chris Leaver, University of Oxford The world’s population has more than doubled in the past 50 years and the relative abundance of food has kept …
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Vegetable oil to lubricate your car, tractor and truck
IUPAC Symposium 6B - Crop Biofactories: Plants as Sustainable Bio-Production Systems for Industrial Raw Materials, Wednesday 3:30pm Sten Stymne, Swedish University of Agricultural …
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What difference is GM making to Australian cotton crops?
IUPAC Symposium 3B - Changing Pesticide use and Risk Scenarios with the Introduction of GM Crops Monday 3:30pm Gary Fitt, CSIRO Entomology GM cotton was released in 1996, as part of the fight …
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Use your spray smarter: save money and the environment
IUPAC Symposium 4B - Formulation, Efficacy and the Environment Monday 4:30pm Heping Zhu, United States Department of Agriculture “Current label-recommended levels of pesticides for spray …
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A new chick magnet – if you’re a moth
IUPAC Symposium 3A - Chemical Ecology and Crop Protection, Thursday 9:30am Peter Gregg, Cotton CRC A plant perfume that attracts female moths—a world-first attractant invented by the Cotton …
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Add fertiliser to fight weeds
Feeding weeds fertiliser sounds like exactly the wrong thing, if you want to get rid of them, but Jennifer Firn of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems has been doing just that—to control African lovegrass, …
Waste is a waste: Pigs reduce the burden on the oceans
A biotechnologist from the South Australian Research and Development Institute has taken using “everything but the pig’s squeal” to new lengths. Through clever recycling of pig waste, Andrew Ward has …
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