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Study suggests healthy ecosystems are vital in reducing risk of future deadly pandemics

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IMAGE: Invasive alien plants have reduced the habitat quality of the Mauritian flying fox, resulting in increased foraging in agricultural lands and urban environments.
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CABI scientist Dr Arne Witt has shared his expertise on invasive alien plant species as part of a new paper which argues that healthy ecosystems are vital in reducing the risk of future pandemics - such as coronaviruses (including COVID-19) - that threaten human health.
The paper - 'Land use-induced spillover: priority actions for protected and conserved area managers' - is published as part of a special issue by the journal

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How India's rice production can adapt to climate change challenges

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IMAGE: Farm workers plant rice transplants at the Borlaug Institute for South Asia's research farm in Bihar, India.
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Credit: University of Illinois.
URBANA, Ill. ¬- As the global population grows, the demand for food increases while arable land shrinks. A new University of Illinois study investigates how rice production in India can meet future needs by adapting to changing climate conditions and water availability.
"Rice is the primary crop in India, China, and other countries in Southeast Asia. Rice consumption is also growing in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world," says Prasanta Kalita, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at U of I and lead author on the study.

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By analyzing more than a decade's worth of information on 55 crops, all dependent on pollinators, scientists have revealed that developed countries are particularly reliant on imported pollinator-dependent crops, while countries that export the majority of these crop types are major drivers of pollinator declines. Their assessment of the ''virtual'' exchange of pollinator

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Pungent-variable of sweet chili pepper Shishito: genes and seeds

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IMAGE: Separation procedure for placental septa in 'Shishito' fruits. Each fruit was cut (a), and the placental septum was extracted (b). The placental septum was vertically separated (b), and one was...
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Credit: Copyright © 2021, Fumiya Kondo, Kenichi Matsushima et al., Shinshu University, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature
Chili peppers (
Capsicum spp.) are an important spice and vegetable that supports food culture around the world, whose intensity of its pungent taste is determined by the content of capsicumoids. However, the content of capsicumoids varies depending on the variety and is known to fluctuate greatly depending on the cultivation environment. This can be a big problem in the production, processing and distribution of peppers where sweet varieties can be spicy and highly spicy varieties are just only mildly spicy. It is thought that changes in the expression of multiple genes involved in capsaicinoid biosynthesis are involved in such changes in pungent taste depending on the cultivation environment, but the mechanism is not clear.

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Gene discovery may help peaches tolerate climate stress

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IMAGE: A behmi tree (Prunus mira), which is a wild relative of the domesticated peach, grows in its native habitat next to a glacier on the Tibetan Plateau.
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Credit: Image credit: Yong Li, from Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A Boyce Thompson Institute-led team has identified genes enabling peaches and their wild relatives to tolerate stressful conditions -- findings that could help the domesticated peach adapt to climate change.
The study, co-led by Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) faculty member Zhangjun Fei, examined the genomes of peach's wild relatives and landraces -- varieties that have adapted over a long time to specific local conditions -- from seven regions in China. They identified genes responsible for peach's tolerance to multiple environmental factors, including cold, drought and ultraviolet (UV-B) radiation levels at high altitudes.

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Floral probiotics reduce apple disease

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IMAGE: Researchers applying probiotic sprays to blooming apple trees at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Credit: Zhouqi Cui, Regan B. Huntley, Neil P. Schultes, Blaire Steven, and Quan Zeng
While many celebrate apple blossoms as classic signs of spring, they are also welcoming entry gates for pathogens. Full of nutrients to lure pollinators and promote pollen germination, flowers also attract bacteria like
Erwinia amylavora, a pathogen that causes a damaging disease called fire blight. However, recent work by scientists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station suggests that these flowery infection sites might also be perfect targets for applying microbial fire blight biocontrol measures.

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Atmospheric drying will lead to lower crop yields, shorter trees across the globe

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IMAGE: Atmospheric drying (referred to as water vapor pressure deficit or VPD) is expected to increase as a result of climate change. This could reduce crop yields and make trees shorter.
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Credit: Maria H Park
A global observation of an ongoing atmospheric drying -- known by scientists as a rise in vapor pressure deficit -- has been observed worldwide since the early 2000s. In recent years, this concerning phenomenon has been on the rise, and is predicted to amplify even more in the coming decades as climate change intensifies.
In a new paper published in the journal Global Change Biology, research from the University of Minnesota and Western University in Ontario, Canada, outlines global atmospheric drying significantly reduces productivity of both crops and non-crop plants, even under well-watered conditions. The new findings were established on a large-scale analysis covering 50 years of research and 112 plant species.

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A plant's place in history can predict susceptibility to pathogens

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Found around the world, powdery mildew is a fungal disease especially harmful to plants within the sunflower family. Like most invasive pathogens, powdery mildew is understudied and learning how it affects hosts can help growers make more informed decisions and protect their crops.
Scientists at the University of Washington and the University of Central Florida inoculated 126 species of plants in the sunflower family with powdery mildew, growing 500 plants from seeds that were collected from the wild and provided from the USDA germplasm network. Through this large-scale study, they were able to measure the various plants' susceptibility to powdery mildew.

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Economic benefits of protecting nature now outweigh those of exploiting it, global data reveal

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The economic benefits of conserving or restoring natural sites "outweigh" the profit potential of converting them for intensive human use, according to the largest-ever study comparing the value of protecting nature at particular locations with that of exploiting it.
A research team led by the University of Cambridge and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) analysed dozens of sites - from Kenya to Fiji and China to the UK - across six continents. A previous breakthrough study in 2002 only had information for five sites.
The findings, published in the journal
Nature Sustainability, come just weeks after a landmark report by Cambridge Professor Partha Dasgupta called for the value of biodiversity to be placed at the heart of global economics.

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Food security: Irradiation and essential oil vapors for cereal treatment

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IMAGE: INRS Professor Monique Lacroix is an expert in sciences applied to food, such as irradiation.
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Credit: Christian Fleury (INRS)
A combined treatment of irradiation and essential oil vapors could effectively destroy insects, bacteria and mold in stored grains. A team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), led by Professor Monique Lacroix, has demonstrated the effect of this process on insects affecting rice. The study was published in the
Microorganisms and insects are the main enemies of stored grains. Currently, the food industry uses fumigants to destroy them. However, these compounds, which evaporate or decompose into gases into air or water, are threatening human health and the environment. "When grain is fumigated, a small amount of gas is absorbed by the grain and released into the atmosphere. For food irradiation, the treatment is physical. If "new molecules" are produced, they are no different than those produced by normal processes applied to food, such as heat," says Professor Monique Lacroix.

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