Plants detach organs in a highly controlled process called abscission. Leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, berries and even roots abscise from the plant in response to pathogens or environmental and developmental stimuli. The ...

Energy is basic for development and its demand increases due to population growth, urbanization, and the improvement of living standards in most parts of the world. Nowadays, the energy sector faces dual challenges, the ...

While urbanisation is accelerating, cities are facing huge environmental, social and economic challenges. Urban agriculture can contribute to more sustainable cities through better environment and climate, building social ...

The African continent is faced with enormous challenges of poverty, hunger and food insecurity, which is exacerbated by climatic and environmental change, and a rapidly increasing population; and in the midst of it all is ...

Breeding new improved crop varieties is a lengthy process that can take many years. With climate change and more rapidly changing environmental conditions, it becomes even more important to develop new varieties quickly. ...

Most of the agrobiodiversity exists in the form of landraces and wild relatives in traditional smallholderbased farming systems. This diversity mainly exists among neglected and underutilized species, so called orphan ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler om folks holdninger til genmodifisert mat og regulering av genmodifiserte organismer (GMO) i Norge. Bakgrunnen for at jeg valgte nettopp disse temaene, var blant annet at nyere forbrukerundersøkelser ...

Purpose: Due to environmental concerns, there is a demand to reduce the use of peat as a growing medium for horticultural crops. Simultaneously, there is an interest to recycle organic waste materials in the form of compost. ...