Insight into how plants sense zinc could help cultivate more nutritious crops
Over 2 billion people worldwide are malnourished due to zinc deficiency. Led by the University of Copenhagen, an international team of researchers has discovered how plants sense zinc and use this knowledge to enhance plant zinc uptake, leading to an increase in seed zinc content by 50 percent.
The new knowledge might one day be applied towards the cultivation of more nutritious crops.
A deficiency of zinc and other essential dietary nutrients is one of the greatest causes of malnutrition worldwide. More than two billion people are estimated to suffer from zinc deficiency, a problem that can lead to impaired immune systems, mental disorders, and stunting.
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Timing is important when it comes to managing weeds in horse paddocks with herbicides, those attending a recent pasture management workshop were told.
Bill Witt, professor emeritus in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Kentucky, discussed current herbicide effectiveness at the annual Pastures Please!! workshop in Kentucky.
He led a discussion about new herbicides and how they protect against troublesome weeds in horse pastures.
Witt emphasized that pasture management is a time-sensitive matter. Weeds and unwanted grasses are much easier to deal with in the early stages of development rather than the late stages.
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WATER EFFICIENCY: The goal is to demonstrate this low-cost sensor monitoring system on different irrigated fields in Michigan and Indiana to show farmers how they are effective in helping to improve water efficiency and disease management. The goal is to prevent overirrigation, which wastes water and can also drive diseases.
Feb 24, 2021
Younsuk Dong, specialist in the Michigan State University Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, is leading a three-year, $426,000 project to increase adoption of a low-cost irrigation sensor monitoring system among farmers in Michigan and Indiana.
The project, funded by USDA s Natural Resources Conservation Service, focuses on using sensor technology to help improve irrigation efficiency and manage plant diseases.