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New biotech wheat gives fungi the finger without adding new genes
2014-07-22 23:04:13| Extremetech
Wheat is hard to modify in the lab, but a team of Chinese researchers have successfully changed its DNA to make it resistant to fungal infection. They did it without using outside genes, too.
Soil fungi can save money and phosphorus runoff
2014-02-03 20:57:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Soil fungi can save money and phosphorus runoff Farming for optimum soil fungi with less tillage and cover crops may save you money on inputs, reduce phosphorus (P) leaching and runoff and keep regulators off the farm. read more
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Fungi could help boost crops and slow global warming
2014-01-14 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If not for an underground love affair between the fungal and plant kingdoms, todays planet would be a far less hospitable place. Mycorrhizal fungi are critical for more varieties of crops than are bees nine out of 10 crops have roots that are encrusted with these fungal tentacles. The fungi rummage through soil, fetching water and nutrients and delivering them to the roots of crops and other plants, receiving carbon-rich sugars produced through photosynthesis in return. The fungi protect the...
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Grow-at-home mushroom kits create fungi farmers
2013-06-23 07:50:39| Grocery - Topix.net
College students Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora were just a few months short of careers in corporate banking when they learned in a class lecture that it was possible to grow gourmet mushrooms on leftover coffee grounds.
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Grow-at-home mushroom kits create DIY fungi farmers
2013-06-17 20:21:57| Grocery - Topix.net
College students Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora were just a few months short of careers in corporate banking when they learned in a class lecture that it was possible to grow gourmet mushrooms on leftover coffee grounds.