15-11-12 When Flory arrived at the Club he found the Lackersteens in an unusually morose mood. Mrs Lackersteen was sitting, as usual, in the best place under the punkah, and was reading the Civil List, the Debrett of Burma. She was in a bad temper with her h...

15-04-07 Prickly lettuce, a common weed that has long vexed farmers, has potential as a new cash crop providing raw material for rubber production, according to Washington State University scientists. Writing in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry...

14-05-08 Researchers have some bad news for future farmers and eaters: As carbon dioxide levels rise this century, some grains and legumes（豆类） will become significantly less nutritious than they are today. The new findings are reported in the journal Nat...

14-05-02 Increasingly harsh drought conditions in the U.S. Midwest's Corn Belt may take a serious toll on corn and soybean yields over the next half-century, according to research published today in the journal Science. Corn yields could drop by 15 to 30 per...

14-03-10 Crop yields in the fragile semi-arid（半干燥的） areas of Zimbabwe have been declining over time due to a decline in soil fertility resulting from mono-cropping, lack of fertilizer, and other factors. In collaboration with the International Crops Re...

14-03-06 Teaching crop plants to concentrate carbon dioxide in their leaves could increase photosynthetic（光合作用的） efficiency by 60 percent and yields by as much as 40 percent, researchers report in a new study. The team used a computer model to simulat...

14-02-26 A multi-institutional team reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel（生物柴油） production. These are only the first steps in a bigger...

13-10-30 A walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore a plentiful crop of nuts every year. Every one who passed by pelted（攻击或投掷） its branches with sticks and stones, in order to bring down the fruit, and the tree suffered severely. It is hard, it c...

13-07-17 Improving crop yields using sustainable methods could cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 12% per calorie produced according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. At the same time, these changes could provide...

13-06-21 Crop yields worldwide are not increasing quickly enough to support estimated global needs in 2050, according to a study published June 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by research associate Deepak Ray and colleagues from the Institute on the E...