More Worms the Merrier for Soil and Plant Quality
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By RICHARDS, Wally  There are 3500 to 4000 species of earthworms and almost 200 have been identified in New Zealand   --------------------   THE only way to ensure good-quality plants and gardens is to have a healthy soil-food web.
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A new report adds to the mounting evidence that relationships between plant and animal species can be far more complex than had been thought.
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Results on tests for soybean rust on Monday were expected to confirm the fungus has spread to three more Louisiana fields and one in Mississippi, an industry official familiar with the investigation told Reuters.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Scientists have coaxed a common soil bacteria into strengthening the ground it lives in, raising the prospect of new construction techniques for stabilizing slopes or reducing earthquake damage.
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U.S. Agriculture Department tests confirmed the spread of soybean rust, a yield-slashing fungus, in three more fields in Louisiana, a university scientist familiar with USDA activities told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Extracting artemisinin from the wormwood plant is labor intensive. UC Berkeley will complete development of a synthetic process to procuce artemisinic acid, while Amyris will develop processes
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By Durham, Sharon  Using compost to make a foliar spray or soil drench to promote plant growth and suppress plant diseases has gained popularity in the United States during the past 10 years, especially among organic farmers.
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Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday&#39;s issue of the journal Science.
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Science & environment: Consequences of contamination between GM crops and non-GM varietiesare set to worsen, scientists  warn
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Next-generation sequencing uncovers disease-causing microbes.
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A new method to detect and help stop worm attacks being developed by researchers at Penn State University is using the speed of connections to detect the attacks. The system also uses other algorithms to limit the number of false positives
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U.S. scientists say they have analyzed the genetic makeup of an entire community of bacteria that live inside an unusual marine worm.
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By The Garden Path, Tim Elkner, Daina Savage  Editor's note: This gardening column is written by Daina Savage, Intelligencer Journal correspondent, and Tim Elkner, Lancaster County Horticulture extension agent.           Hurricane effect. Thank goodness for Ernesto residuals.
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By Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 12--RICHMOND -- The General Assembly is poised to create a slew of new guidelines for spreading sludge on farms.
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It's not a treatment for the  faint-hearted or squeamish but scientists said on Tuesday that  worms could be a new treatment for a bowel disease.
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Scientists have mapped the genome of a worm that causes elephantiasis in what they called on Thursday an important step toward developing new drugs or vaccines to fight the mosquito-borne disfiguring disease.
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The latest food-contamination case raises the stakes for growers and public officials.