News articles tagged with 'cotton'
Better cotton threading its way towards global markets
— 9 Jul 2009 12:18 | EnvironmentThe first batch of sustainable cotton - to be produced with a fraction of the water and pesticide use of traditional cotton cultivation - is expected to reach global markets starting... — full story
Modern irrigation techniques could save Turkey's water
— 22 Mar 2009 17:40 | EnvironmentWith less than one tenth of Turkey's irrigable land under modern irrigation techniques vast potentials for water saving exist in agriculture, user of nearly three quarters of the nation's... — full story
AgriLife Research drip irrigation project yields promising results
— 4 Mar 2009 11:00 | EnvironmentSubsurface drip irrigation was able to produce up to four bales of cotton per acre with less water than conventional irrigation methods at the Texas AgriLife Research station near Chillicothe... — full story
Genetically modified crops protect neighbours from pests
— 18 Sep 2008 20:07 | EnvironmentA study in northern China indicates that genetically modified cotton, altered to express the insecticide, Bt, not only reduces pest populations among those crops, but also reduces pests... — full story
First documented case of pest resistance to biotech cotton
— 8 Feb 2008 14:43 | EnvironmentA pest insect known as bollworm is the first to evolve resistance in the field to plants modified to produce an insecticide called Bt, according to a new research report... — full story
New designer toxins kill Bt-resistant insect pests
— 2 Nov 2007 06:50 | EnvironmentA new way to combat resistant pests stems from discovering how the widely used natural insecticide Bt kills insects. Figuring out how Bt toxins punch holes in the cells of an insect's... — full story
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