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GM CROPS - CREATION OF SUPER WEEDS Stainless steel corrosion mystery solved FROM CUTLERY and cooking pans to the inside of a Formula 1 car engine or a huge chemical process plant, stainless steel is all around us. It's not meant to corrode, but it can, and when it does the results can be disastrous, whether it's a hole ... New UV technology A NEW method for producing ultraviolet (UV) light has been patented by an international team of university researchers in New Jersey and Germany. The far-reaching technology is expected to contribute to major advancements in the semiconductor ... Blood vessels grown in live animals A HEALTHY network of blood vessels has been grown in live animals by biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan. They used implants that deliver critical growth enzymes sequentially as in nature. ``To grow a replacement tissue cell by ... 
Wing patterns, key to morphological evolutionTHE BEAUTIFUL patterns on butterfly wings are emerging as exceptional model systems that may reveal much about how the shapes, sizes and colours of specific organisms have evolved, a type of study called morphological evolution, according to the ... Biofertilizers for rice cultivation BIO-FERTILIZERS ARE eco friendly and are environmentally safe. They form not only part of integrated nutrients but are of low cost which is of immense help to the farming community. Biofertilizers are widely used in rice production. The ... Leaf caterpillar menace on drumstick LEAVES OF drumstick (Moringa olefera) are often attacked by caterpillars of Noorda blitealis. Females lay cream, oval eggs on leaves which hatch in 2-3 days. Larvae feed on leaflets in a thin silken web on the lower surface. So, the ... New maize genome mapped FOR MEMBERS of the Maize Mapping Project, the proverbial harvest time has arrived. After almost four years of research to create an integrated Maize Genome map, the University of Missouri-Columbia researchers unveiled the first fruits of their ...
Say `hello' — via Net telephony!This week, India joins other Internet-enabled nations to allow its citizens access to Net-based telephony. Anand Parthasarathy examines what this means for the average user and what is required by way of new hardware and software to exploit th e technology of Voice over Internet Protocol.
Crippling virus affects groundnut and sunflowerTOBACCO STREAK virus is a devastating pathogen, seriously affecting groundnut and sunflower. In groundnut it causes the peanut stem necrosis disease (PSND), The symptom was observed in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh during the monsoon ...
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