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Young Farmers Improving Food Security
When her friends go out to play with skipping rope during break, 12 year old Noncedo Masina takes her watering can and goes to work on her plot at the school vegetable garden. The grade seven pupil at Boyane Primary School, in the
...Posted: 2008-10-06 at 04:49
New exhibition explores the botanical influences on Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking work
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) is best known for his theory of evolution and other natural history achievements, but little is known about his enduring and insightful work with plants and the important role they played in formulating his ideas. “Darwin’s ...
Posted: 2008-10-06 at 08:57
First Announcement: VI International Symposium on Irrigation of Horticultural Crops
VI International Symposium on Irrigation of Horticultural Crops November 2-6, 2009, Viña del Mar (Chile) The Conveners and Organizing Committee invite you with great pleasure to participate in the Sixth International Symposium on ...
Posted: 2008-10-03 at 09:13
Extended abstract submission deadline: International Conference on Sustainable Greenhouse Systems - Greensys2009
International Conference on Sustainable Greenhouse Systems - Greensys2009: October 31st 2008 is the new deadline for abstract submission. Despite more than 175 abstracts submitted, many scientists have asked to delay the submission period as ...
Posted: 2008-10-01 at 08:58
ISHS launches new Working Group on Jujube
On the occasion of the I International Jujube Symposium (September 21-25, 2008 in Baoding (China)) a new ISHS Working Group had been launched. The ISHS working Group Jujube is operating under the ISHS Section Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and ...
Posted: 2008-09-29 at 02:07
Making the most of musa
October 5-9, 2008, Mombasa (Kenya): International Conference Banana and Plantain in Africa. Harnessing International Partnerships to Increase Research Impact. Info: Thomas Dubois, IITA c/o Lambourn Ltd, Carolyn House, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon CR9 3EE, ...
Posted: 2008-09-29 at 09:07
Plant conservation for the next decade: a celebration of Kew’s 250th Anniversary
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK): 12-16 October 2009 The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is hosting a celebratory scientific conference to mark the occasion of its 250th Anniversary. The exciting programme will include three days of scientific sessions, ...
Posted: 2008-09-29 at 08:50
Prolonging the Life of Packaged Salads
In a bid to help the industry maintain product quality and slow down deterioration rates, Cranfield University’s Plant Science Laboratory reviews research into post-harvest treatment. Dr Leon Terry reports The market for ready-to-eat salads has ...
Posted: 2008-09-29 at 08:38
ISHS Board, Executive Committee and Council Meeting 2008
Robert J. Bogers, ISHS Treasurer In April 2008 the ISHS Board, Executive Committee and Council met in Agadir, Morocco. Important issues to be discussed, in addition to the reports of the President and other Board members and those of the ...
Posted: 2008-09-22 at 04:42
California’s Largest Living Roof Crowns the Greenest Museum in the World
On September 27, 2008, San Francisco (USA) will celebrate the opening of the greenest museum in the world - the new California Academy of Sciences. One of the most spectacular features of the museum is the 2.5-acre Living Roof. Designed by world-renowned ...
Posted: 2008-09-22 at 09:55
First announcement: VII International Symposium on Artichoke, Cardoon and their Wild Relatives
June 16-19, 2009, Saint-Pol de Léon (France): VII International Symposium on Artichoke, Cardoon and their Wild Relatives. Info: Christophe Bazinet, Bretagne Biotechnologie Végétale (BBV), Pen Ar Prat., 29250 Saint-Pol de Leon, Brittany, France. ...
Posted: 2008-09-19 at 03:49
Acta Horticulturae 792, 793, 794 and 795 available
Acta Horticulturae 792; V International Symposium on Irrigation of Horticultural Crops (ISBN 978-90-66054-87-5 ), Acta Horticulturae 793; XI International Workshop on Fire Blight (ISBN 978-90-66055-11-7 ), Acta Horticulturae 794; II International ...
Posted: 2008-09-19 at 03:07
WOCMAP IV, South Africa - Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
November 9-14, 2008, Cape Town (South Africa): WOCMAP IV: World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Info: Prof. Dr. Kobus J.N. Eloff, Phytomedicine Programme, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa. Phone: ...
Posted: 2008-09-19 at 02:56
Battling a banana killer in East Africa
15 September 2008 – A joint FAO-government project in Uganda has helped over 3 000 farmers combat a pestilent disease that threatened to wipe out production of cooking banana, a staple crop upon which 14 million Ugandans depend for food and income. Not ...
Posted: 2008-09-15 at 11:40
Acta Horticulturae 771, 790 and 791 available
Acta Horticulturae 771; XXVII International Horticultural Congress - IHC2006: International Symposium on Seed Enhancement and Seedling Production Technology (ISBN 978-90-66055-01-8 ), Acta Horticulturae 790; VIII International People-Plant ...
Posted: 2008-09-15 at 09:36
Probing Question: Does talking to plants help them grow?
In a 1986 interview, England’s Prince Charles discussed his gardening habits, commenting “I just come and talk to the plants, really. Very important to talk to them; they respond.” The theory that plants benefit from human ...
Posted: 2008-09-09 at 10:18
West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), PhD Programme
The WACCI programme is for full-time, professional plant breeders who will make their careers breeding new cultivars of food crops. Prospective students must have an MSc/MPhil, and a position as an agricultural research scientist in a
...Posted: 2008-09-08 at 02:28
Tanzania: Benefits of cutting out the middleman
The Common Fund for Commodities plans to spend more than $100 million over five years helping farmers in the developing world to process their crops for added-value exports. The money is aimed at millions of small-scale farmers in
...Posted: 2008-09-08 at 10:29
New Research Initiative Could Provide Insight into Plant Family
A major new effort to document the evolution of the economically most important group of plants on earth – the monocots – will be supported by a grant of nearly $2.9M by the National Science Foundation (United States of America) under its Assembling the ...
Posted: 2008-09-01 at 08:14
Newsletter: Plant Substrates, Soilless Culture, Protected Cultivation
The August 2008 issue (number 2) of the joint Newsletter published by the ISHS Commission Plant Substrates and Soilless Culture in cooperation with the ISHS Commission on Protected Cultivation is now available for download from the ISHS Scientific ...
Posted: 2008-08-25 at 04:38
2008 ASHS officer elections results
This year’s election of officers for the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Board of Directors by the ASHS Membership places William J. Lamont, Jr., as President-elect, David Reed as Education Division Vice President-elect, Diane Doud ...
Posted: 2008-08-04 at 04:39
Desmond Layne named President of the American Pomological Society
Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina, USA) associate professor of horticulture Desmond Layne is the new president of the American Pomological Society. Pomology is the science that focuses on fruit and nut crops. He is the first Clemson faculty ...
Posted: 2008-07-30 at 03:58
New Future for Kiwifruit
Kiwifruit lovers can look forward to new, novel forms of their favourite fruit thanks to the release this week of crucial genetic data which fruit breeders say will help them naturally breed new varieties with increased health properties and exciting ...
Posted: 2008-07-30 at 03:43
Uganda’s first oil palm crop about to be harvested, could save Lake Victoria
Oil palm is a new cash crop being re-introduced in
...Posted: 2008-07-29 at 09:23
Oregon State University farm in quest for tastier blueberries
Corvallis (Oregon, USA): Small, roundish, juicy, sweet and blue. Very like a blueberry. But on the Lewis-Brown Horticultural Research Farm they’re also science projects. About 400 blueberry varieties grow on the 115-are farm on Peoria ...
Posted: 2008-07-25 at 09:01
Acta Horticulturae 768, 769 and 770 available
Acta Horticulturae 768; XXVII International Horticultural Congress - IHC2006: International Symposium on The Role of Postharvest Technology in the Globalisation of Horticulture (ISBN 978-90-66053-09-0 ), Acta Horticulturae 769; XXVII International ...
Posted: 2008-07-24 at 09:40
Green roofs popping up in big cities
Green roofs gain in popularity in big cities as environmentally friendly industry comes into its own. The Washington Nationals’ new baseball stadium opened the 2008 season with one. Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics will feature many ...
Posted: 2008-07-15 at 08:37
Review article provides tools for the Rosaceae genomics community
A recent paper published in the journal Plant Physiology provides a comprehensive overview of the genomics tools and resources available for the rapidly growing Rosaceae scientific community. Rosaceae is an economically important group of plants that ...
Posted: 2008-07-08 at 04:04
Pineapple News #15
The June 2008 issue of the ISHS Pineapple Working Group newsletter ( (Pineapple News 15) is now available for download from the ISHS Scientific Structure pages at www.ishs.org/science/
Posted: 2008-07-02 at 09:04
African Women in Agricultural R&D (AWARD) Fellowships, Round One
The Gender & Diversity program invites applications for the first round of fellowships under the AWARD Program. The fellowship will support African women agricultural scientists from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
...Posted: 2008-06-30 at 12:20
Uganda GM banana fails to defeat diseases
A field trial of a Genetically-Modified (GM) banana variety in Uganda has failed to defeat the occurrence of banana diseases. The variety was attacked by Black Sigatoka disease, which can cut a banana tree’s fruit production by half.
...Posted: 2008-06-30 at 09:19
Success will be sweet in latest genome hunt
The cacao plant is to become the latest organism to have its complete genetic code sequenced, but it is no idle exercise to generate tastier products for chocoholics. The five-year project is expected to help crop scientists identify genes in ...
Posted: 2008-06-26 at 08:25
IITA to boost banana industry in Africa
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has announced a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to sponsor the Banana Conference 2008 The Pan-African conference, the first of its kind to link state-of-the-art ...
Posted: 2008-06-25 at 03:28
What puts colour in the cheeks of citrus fruit
A team from CIRAD recently identified the genes involved in the variability of carotenoid contents in various citrus species. These results are to be used to optimize citrus fruit carotenoid content and thus their nutritional and organoleptic properties.
Posted: 2008-06-19 at 12:00
Fruits Vol. 63, No. 3, May-June 2008
The latest issue of the CIRAD journal Fruits.
Posted: 2008-06-10 at 12:00
The Tyranny of the Impact Factor
By Jules Janick, ISHS Board Member and Director of Publications Eugene Garfield, a linguist, is the remarkable founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). In the 1960s, Garfield came up with an intriguing concept that has ...
Posted: 2008-06-07 at 02:16
Massey University (New Zealand) showcases automated kiwifruit picker
The kiwifruit picker project was born after business development manager Garth Atkinson heard a report on the kiwifruit industry’s perennial crisis: not enough pickers. He and Dr Flemmer, an industrial automation specialist, worked out a way to automate ...
Posted: 2008-06-06 at 09:52
New bacterium affects fresh tomatoes and capsicums in New Zealand
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) has today (June 4, 2008) withdrawn phytosanitary certification for New Zealand fresh tomato and capsicum export produce until further notice, following the confirmation of a new disease-causing bacterium in three ...
Posted: 2008-06-04 at 08:53
Acta Horticulturae 786, 787, 788 and 789 available
Acta Horticulturae 786; International Workshop on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISBN 978-90-66052-48-2 ), Acta Horticulturae 787; International Workshop on Tropical and Subtropical Fruits (ISBN 978-90-66052-89-5 ); Acta Horticulturae 788 ...
Posted: 2008-06-03 at 11:05
Chicago Botanic Garden to break ground on $50 million conservation center
The Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe is known for its knockout landscapes and blooms, but it’s more than just a pretty face. The garden, which has boosted its cadre of scientists from two to 22 in the last decade, will break ground ...
Posted: 2008-06-01 at 09:56
Pollination crisis - mysterious malady causing honeybees to disappear
Story by Alison Benjamin Dave Hackenberg’s bees have been on the road for four days. To reach the almond orchards of California’s Central Valley, they pass through the fertile plains of the Mississippi, huge cattle ranches and ...
Posted: 2008-05-31 at 02:52
Acta Horticulturae 785 available
Acta Horticulturae 785; International Symposium on Grape Production and Processing (ISBN 978-90-66052-68-0 ) has just been released.
For further details, orders and article downloads go to www.actahort.org
Posted: 2008-05-30 at 11:01
Science breakthough leads to new gourmet mushrooms
A forest-grown mushroom Lactarius deliciosus which is a well-known Northern Hemisphere delicacy is, for the first time this year, being grown in commercial quantities in New Zealand. It promises to add a new dimension to New Zealand cuisine but also ...
Posted: 2008-05-22 at 11:18
CSIRO to slash jobs and research
Australian research giant the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has been forced to slash about 100 jobs and close two laboratories after large funding cuts in last week’s federal budget. The announcement will ...
Posted: 2008-05-21 at 01:14
Khalifa International Date Palm Award
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Government, in the framework of its development plans, has placed the establishment of a date production industry as one of its important priorities. Under the leadership of His Highness, The President Sheikh Khalifa Bin ...
Posted: 2008-05-19 at 03:17
World’s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut
Article by Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin (The New York Times - nytimes.com) The brown plant hopper, an insect no bigger than a gnat, is multiplying by the billions and chewing through rice paddies in East Asia, threatening the diets of many poor ...
Posted: 2008-05-18 at 10:01
Genetics behind those big tomatoes
The secret behind growing large tomatoes lies not in the fertilizer or the perfect soil conditions, but in just a few genetic changes that over time have resulted in tomatoes 1,000 times bigger than their wild ancestors. Without these changes, ...
Posted: 2008-05-08 at 08:54
Tracing Florida Mangoes’ Family Tree
A highly esteemed traditional crop in India and Southeast Asia for centuries, mangoes have also become well established in tropical regions of Central and South America over the past 500 years. In the United States, mangoes are grown in Florida and ...
Posted: 2008-05-07 at 08:48
Food vs. fuel a global myth
By Robert Zubrin and Gal Luft In recent weeks, a flood of reports and statements has claimed that the world’s biofuel programs—in particular the U.S. corn ethanol effort—is starving poor people around the globe. Even the UN’s ...
Posted: 2008-05-06 at 09:05
Closing of the Utrecht Herbarium (The Netherlands)
On 26th March 2008 the University Board of Utrecht University, The Netherlands, informed the employees of the Utrecht Herbarium that as of 1 June 2008 the Herbarium is to be closed and, with immediate effect, access to the collections, from national as ...
Posted: 2008-04-28 at 08:50
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