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Weed control with methyl bromide alternatives.
Methyl bromide (MeBr) has been used for several decades for preplant (PRE) soil fumigation in high-value agricultural and horticultural crops becaus...
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Lycopene: prospects for chemoprevention and treatmentof prostate cancer.
Lycopene is a carotenoid compound found in certain fruit, such as tomato, watermelon, pink grapefruit and guava in high concentrations. Dietary inta...
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TILLInG and its potential for plant agriculture.
Targeting Induced Local Lesions In Genomes (TILLInG) is a reverse genetic strategy, which combines traditional mutagenesis with high-throughput molecu...
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Crop diversification through halophyte production on salt-prone land resources.
Rapid population growth in the less developed countries of arid and semiarid regions and concomitant decline in productivity of agricultural lands due...
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Modifying forestry and agroforestry to increase water productivity in the semi-arid tropics.
The need to increase water productivity is a growing global concern as the World Commission on Water has estimated that demand for water will increase...
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Amelioration strategies for salinity-induced land degradation.
Salinization of soils is a major impediment to their optimal utilization in many arid and semi-arid regions throughout the world. In several large irr...
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Farmer decisions to adopt genetically modified crops.
This article reviews the literature on farmer decision-making related to genetically modified (GM) crops. The literature based on farmer surveys, lin...
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Challenges to ensuring food security through rice.
Rice is the major staple food of the world's population. In 2003, more than 3 billion people depended on rice for food energy and protein. Global rice pr...
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Crop research to benefit poor farmers in marginal areas of the developing world: a review of technic
Despite great successes in crop research for the developing world, many poor farmers in marginal areas have not benefited. There is increasing recogn...
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Grassland science in Europe facing new challenges: biodiversity and global environmental change.
In Europe, grassland is one of the dominant forms of land use. Within 20 years, the area of permanent grasslands and pastures in Western Europe has de...
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