Search results for '"climate change" OR "climatic change" OR "global warming" OR "greenhouse gases" OR "greenhouse effect"'
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Herbaceous crops with potential for biofuel production in the USA.
World energy demand is straining energy supplies and spurring the search for alternative energy sources - especially transportation fuels. Ethanol pro...
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Herbicide-resistant crops as weeds in North America.
Growers have rapidly adopted transgenic herbicide-resistant (HR) crops, such as canola (Brassica napus L.), soyabean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.], maize (...
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High-sugar grasses.
Perennial ryegrass diploids with elevated concentrations of water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC), commonly termed 'high-sugar grasses' (HSGs), have been p...
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Impact of climate-change-enhanced salinity stress on rice and maintaining productivity in the future
The earth is experiencing a faster change in climate in the twenty-first century than it has in the past. The global average temperature has increased...
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Impacts of Bt crops on non-target invertebrates and insecticide use patterns.
The ubiquitous nature of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a Gram-positive bacterium capable of producing crystal proteins with insecticidal activity durin...
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Impacts of climate change on biodiversity - consolidated knowledge and research gaps.
Climate change is one of the main drivers impacting biodiversity. The spatial and temporal distribution of temperature and precipitation as well as ...
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Impacts of global change on diseases of agricultural crops and forest trees.
The fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects rising levels of greenhouse gas and global temperature. The w...
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Impacts on forestry of changing energy sources.
Global reliance on the use of fossil fuels has increased dramatically over the past century but we are now at a crossroads. Questions have been raised...
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Improving bioethanol production by increasing sugar beet crop yield.
This review presents a summary of published papers on the improvement of sugar beet yield and its transformation into bioethanol. After describing the...
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Influence of climate change on plant disease infections and epidemics caused by viruses and bacteria
This review is motivated by (i) the magnitude of the threat to world food security and diversity of natural vegetation posed by viral and bacterial ...
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