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Fungal diseases in cereal crops cause major economic losses and also threaten human and livestock health, because some fungi produce powerful toxins that might enter the food chain. Farmers use fungicides to control crop diseases, such as wheat head blight. Although agrochemicals are rigorously tested for safety, there can be concerns over chemical residues in food.

Kanazawa, Japan – Fungal diseases in cereal crops cause major economic losses and also threaten human and livestock health, because some fungi produce...

A team led by Kanazawa University, Japan, discovered that applying the vitamin nicotinamide (NIM) to plants prevents development of fungal disease. Pre-treatment with NIM activates the plant immune response and increases amounts of antimicrobial compounds that suppress the growth of the fungus. The results could lead to novel approaches to tackling crop diseases, potentially replacing toxic fungicide sprays with new, safer ways to stimulate the plants own defense systems.

As the U.S. hammers out national infrastructure legislation, implements President Biden's recent cybersecurity executive order and adopts other related initiatives,

Credits: Image: Courtesy of CHIME Caption: A sky map of FRBs based on CHIME detections reveals bursts distributed evenly across the night sky. Credits: Image: Courtesy of CHIME Previous image Next image To catch sight of a fast radio burst is to be extremely lucky in where and when you point your radio dish. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are oddly bright flashes of light, registering in the radio...

A Single Telescope Has Detected Hundreds of Mysterious Radio Signals From Space 9 JUNE 2021 In just its first year of operations, a Canadian radio telescope has quadrupled the number of detections of strange cosmic signals known as extragalactic fast radio bursts. Between 2018 and 2019, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) detected 535 new signals. The new, expanded fast radio burst (FRB) catalog will allow scientists to better analyze statistical data.   In turn, this ...

And we still dont know where they come from. Stars from a distant nebula. Pitris / iStock The best things in life are fleeting, and in radio astronomy, they are also among the brightest ever seen. A telescope in British Columbia detected more than 500 new fast radio bursts in its first year of operation, between 2018 and 2019, according to a briefing streamed live via YouTube of an American Astronomical Society Meeting on Wednesday. No one is sure what creates the fast radio bursts (FRBs), bu...

Consumption is showing signs of recovering thanks to education targeted at young people and demand among people staying at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carbon degassed from planetary mantles by volcanic activity plays an important role in the planetary surface environment. However, how the carbon content in the Earths mantle was established is still poorly understood. Here we show that the mantle of planetary embryos may have been nearly saturated with carbon by new high-pressure experiments and pointed out that the carbon solubility of magma is very consistent with the estimated carbon contents in terrestrial and lunar mantles.

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