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Exploit plants’ ability to tell time to make food production more sustainable, say scientists
Cambridge plant scientists say circadian clock genes, which enable plants to measure daily and seasonal rhythms, should be targeted in agriculture and crop breeding for higher yields and more sustainable farming.
Plants grow much better when their internal clock is matched to the environment they grow in. Alex Webb
Like humans, plants have an ‘internal clock’ that monitors the rhythms of their environment. The authors of a study published today say that now the genetic basis of this circadian system is well understood and there are improved genetic tools to modify it, the clock should be exploited in agriculture – a process they describe as ‘chronoculture’ – to contribute to global food security.
The image above is obviously wrong, deliberately. So is the original by Michelangelo.
God isn t a gorilla. God even isn t.
Perusing through the scientific record, there is strong evidence that other species of sapiens have trodden the earth. There is a strong chance too that we, the sapiens of sapiens, managed to make them disappear with our rat-like breeding and our avaricious needs. Unless they vanished from lack of survival skills in changing habitats. unless they were wiped out by disease or other accidental events.
And in the paradigm of evolution, the hominid ancestor the precursor of the apes would have given ape-lines characteristics to gorillas (as gorillas), and to sapiens in various formats, as non-cross-breedable cousins. As mentioned before I believe Homo sapiens (meaning wise ) sapiens (twice wise) us, humans was (and is) a weak species that had to become more astutely cunning to survive. (In my humble opinion our second sapiens should actually be tellin
Leading UK businesses and researchers in £75 million collaboration to create technologies of the future
Nine innovative business-led research partnerships to develop technologies such as accelerated medicine discovery, green household products and sensor technology for drivers.
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Nine innovative business-led research partnerships backed with over £75 million to develop new technologies
partnerships led by Unilever, EDF and the Francis Crick Institute will look at accelerating medicine discovery, creating green household products and developing sensor technology for drivers
part of government’s ambition to build back better and drive economic growth and job creation through innovation
Leading UK businesses and research institutions will join forces to develop new technologies, from 3D imaging accelerating medicine discovery, to transforming waste into eco-friendly household products.
Nine innovative business-led research partnerships backed with over £75 million to develop new technologies
partnerships led by Unilever, EDF and the Francis Crick Institute will look at accelerating medicine discovery, creating green household products and developing sensor technology for drivers
part of government’s ambition to build back better and drive economic growth and job creation through innovation
Leading UK businesses and research institutions will join forces to develop new technologies, from 3D imaging accelerating medicine discovery, to transforming waste into eco-friendly household products.
Announced today (Friday 2 April 2021) by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, 9 new partnerships will bring together expertise from some of the UK’s most prominent businesses and research institutions to develop innovations in support of the UK’s key priorities, such as tackling climate change and boosting medical research.
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