on agronomy and the post-harvest of avocado, said faculty dean Assoc Prof Dr Azwan Awang. MaSDa is a

We’re seeing rice fields drown in floods.... We likely would not understand all these problems as well as we do today without the work of Dr.... Cynthia Rosenzweig, this year’s World Food Prize laureate, ” he said. The Des Moines-based World Food Prize Foundation award recognized Rosenzweig as the founder of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project....

МОСКВА, 7 ноя — РИА Новости. Предельные концентрации яда, выделяемого микроскопическим грибом — триходермой, допустимые для защиты растений от болезней, установили ученые ТюмГУ.

JOHOR BARU: A local cafe owner who plants and brews his own coffee is now internationally known after his blend of Liberica coffee beans won an award at an international competition in Italy. Jason Liew said it was a dream come true for him when his coffee blend emerged third in the World Barista Championship in Italy in October.“ At least 40 countries participated in the competition, ” said Liew, who owns several cafes known as My Liberica here, in an interview. The top two spots went to partic

МОСКВА, 28 июн — РИА Новости. Ученые ТюмГУ установили, что обработка семян пшеницы суспензией бактерий из вечной мерзлоты позволяет на 50-70 процентов повысить урожай озимых, а также значительно снизить уровень заражения грибковой инфекцией в зерне пшеницы первого поколения.

SHANGHAI — Yuan Longping, a Chinese plant scientist whose breakthroughs in developing high-yield hybrid strains of rice helped to alleviate famine and poverty across much of Asia and Africa, died on Saturday in Changsha, China.... He was 90.He died of multiple organ failure, China’s main state-run newspaper, People’s Daily, reported.... His death triggered messages of grief across the country, where Mr....

Robenson Perjuste, 15, whose leg was amputated after he was injured in the Aug.... He was dug out of the rubble that same day with a broken arm and was among the somewhat fortunate ones who promptly received medical care at a local hospital.... But even so, he could not escape amputation, a common consequence of the calamity....

Lee Teng-hui, who as president of Taiwan led its transformation from an island in the grip of authoritarian rule to one of Asia’s most vibrant and prosperous democracies, died on Thursday in Taipei, the capital.... News reports said the cause was septic shock and multiple organ failure.Mr.... Lee’s insistence that Taiwan be treated as a sovereign state angered the Chinese government in Beijing, which considered Taiwan part of its territory and pushed for its unification with the mainland under

arrow-right Saturday's quake was stronger, though centered farther from the capital, than the devastating 2010temblor that killed more than 220, 000, prompting foreign governments and aid agencies to prepare for large numbers of dead, injured and homeless.... Although high call traffic had jammed lines earlier in the day, cellular phone infrastructure in the area remained operational. Ralph Simon, a radio station owner in Jeremie, a city of 30, 000in southwest Haiti, said many homes and buildin