81. The Royal Society - News And Media - Media Releases media Releases Royal Society welcomes Government report on crops of the future 9December 1999 The Royal Society 1 welcomes the first report of the House of http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/templates/press/releasedetails.cfm?file=260.txt

82. University Of Sussex Media Release 22/2/99 Traffic-Choked Crops Find Relief In S TrafficChoked crops Find Relief in Sussex Student. Traffic pollutionis causing unprecedented levels of damage to the world’s crops. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/information_office/media/media49.html

Traffic-Choked Crops Find Relief in Sussex Student 9 February 1999 For immediate release Traffic pollution is causing unprecedented levels of damage to the world’s crops. In a bid to tackle this damage, Sussex student Karen Welfare is working on a way to protect plants against the harmful ozone caused by vehicle pollution. Karen, who is studying for a DPhil in the Plant Stress Unit, is well on the way to isolating an anti-ozone gene. Ozone destroys crops by producing chemicals which attack plants’ membranes. The dangerous gas is produced when nitrogen oxides produced by cars reacts with hydrocarbons in sunlight. Because this reaction takes time to occur, ozone is found in higher levels in agricultural areas, away from the site of the pollution. Karen's research is focused on the massive levels of pollution in urban areas of the Indian sub-continent. Vehicle pollution is particularly harmful in India because of the large population, the growing number of cars, and the fact that, as Karen points out, "these cars are often poorly looked after - they don't have catalytic converters or any control over output." The worst aspect of this pollution is that the traffic which chokes up Indian cities can damage crops in agricultural areas several hundreds of kilometres away. The reaction which produces ozone takes place in a drifting cloud of polluting materials which becomes at its most toxic as it moves towards rural areas. Karen's research is concentrated on the chick pea plant, which is a staple of the Indian diet. Damage done to chick pea crops hits the poorest people hardest, as it is grown on a subsistence basis for food rather than for export. Yields can be badly damaged by ozone pollution, but Karen's research has isolated species which are ozone resistant. By isolating these resistant types, Karen has already pinpointed a way to alleviate the damage done to chick pea yields in India. Closer examination of these strains shows the way to unpicking the plant's defence mechanism. Plants use antioxidants to protect themselves from ozone and other pollutants, and Karen is working towards isolating the specific antioxidant responsible for protecting the plant. This antioxidant could then be incorporated into plants which are non-ozone-resistant.

83. University Of Sussex Media Release 15 November 1999 University Professor Argues University Professor argues that GM crops will reduce thirdworld hunger. Theseare all issues brought into high profile by GM crops. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/information_office/media/media72.html

University Professor argues that GM crops will reduce third-world hunger 15 November 1999 For immediate release Professor Michael Lipton will deliver a lecture tomorrow at the University of Sussex in support of genetically modified (GM) crops. The lecture, 'Genetically modified crops to reduce world hunger: hard fact, emotional blackmail or Monsanto propaganda?' will be based on a lecture that Professor Lipton delivered to 300 leading agricultural scientists in Washington DC, last month. Professor Lipton will argue that poverty reduction in the developing world in 1970-87 was linked to the rapid growth of yields of main food staples and led to productive farm employment, in the wake of the 'green revolution'. However, the reduction in poverty, the growth of yields in staples and increases in farm employment, left out many of the world's poor. Between 1987 and 1998, both poverty reduction and staple yields growth was stalled. According to Professor Lipton, a development economist, there are limits to feasible redistribution. So the revival of growth in food staples yields is necessary to re-start global poverty reduction. Professor Lipton proposes that genetically modified crop research and development, if properly regulated, are the safest and most promising route to this. However, he argues the present organisation and privatisation of research and knowledge diverts this potentially life-saving new science to trivial uses. Professor Lipton believes that radical changes to the organisation of agricultural research are both necessary and feasible to put this right and to address the issues of food-chain safety, environmental management and biodiversity in developing countries. These are all issues brought into high profile by GM crops.

84. Water, Media And Nutrition For Greenhouse Crops Water, media and Nutrition For Greenhouse crops. A Grower’s Guide. All you’llever need to know about water, media, and nutrition for your greenhouse crops. http://touchwoodbooks.co.nz/twatermedia.html

Water, Media and Nutrition For Greenhouse Crops A Grower’s Guide David Wm Reed Paperback, 314 pages, 180 x 230mm, USA, 1996. From the cover – In one book – All you’ll ever need to know about water, media, and nutrition for your greenhouse crops. Intended for the grower-manager of a sophisticated operation as well as the entry-level grower, this book features Chapters on water purification systems, advanced irrigation systems, pH/alkalinity control, the right media mix, water testing and interpretation, and recycling Cutting-edge information never before published Scientifically tested knowledge proven effective in practice

85. The Centre For Alternative Agricultural Media Growing more than crops Dr. Shivaram Pailoor introduces the Centrefor Alternative Agricultural media. Mail this page to a friend http://www.indiatogether.org/stories/caam.htm

indiatogether.org The news that matters. advertisement : Learn more Home Op-Ed States ... Search TOPICS Adivasis Agriculture Children Dalits ... Women SERVICES Advertise Calendar Feedback Links ... Submit Growing more than crops Dr. Shivaram Pailoor introduces the Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media. Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media Krishnalaya 1st main, 4th cross, Narayanapur, Dharwad - 580 008 Karnataka CAAM Bulletins Visit CAAM on the web. A novel venture in the field of agricultural communication has been initiated in Dharwad, Karnataka. The Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media (CAAM) was established to focus on farmer friendly communication system. The first of its kind in India, CAAM is the desi version of various alternative communication efforts, which are need-based, pro-farmer and involving farmers’ participation, that have sprung up all round the world. The alternative agricultural media, which stresses the need for pro-farmer ideologies and practices in agricultural research and communication, is encouraging the farmers' self- respect and self-reliance. Inaugurating this novel venture in December 2000, renowned farm journalist and campaigner for farmer friendly media Mr. Shree Padre stressed that for most of the problems faced by the agricultural sectors, the farmers themselves have an indigenous solution. But mainstream media does not disseminate or highlight this knowledge. Also, it is unfortunate that those who have experience in farming do not write, and likewise those who write do not have farm experience. Mr. Padre recounted the development of

86. Media Interest Items (ACIS) document located at http//cals.arizona.edu/crops/public/media.html Copyright ©2001 University of Arizona, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences webmaster http://cals.arizona.edu/crops/public/media.html

= use your "Back" button to return to ACIS PDF documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader Cooperative Extension Agricultural Meetings, Field Days and Workshops University of Arizona - Ag and Life Sciences news site (uanews.org) Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports ... Impact statements from the UA College of Ag and Life Sciences HTML PDF HTML PDF Weed Management Techniques for Vegetable Crops HTML PDF Desert Vegetable Crop Production ProgramAssistance for Arizona's Growers Western Region Integrated Pest Management Report 2001 (PDF file) General Info. Ag. in AZ Produce Media News ... Contacts For more Arizona Production Ag Information: Home Cotton Veggies Forages ... Site Map document located at: http://cals.arizona.edu/crops/public/media.html University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences webmaster: jsjones@ag.arizona.edu

87. Information For News Media - FAQs Home, Resources, Contact Us, Main Articles Listing crops. eMail me thearticles - Search our articles - contact us . return to media home. http://cals.arizona.edu/media/archives/8.html

Main Articles Listing Crops Measuring Perchlorate Levels in Lettuce Scientists Identify Cold Tolerant Gene That May Improve Crop Hardiness Main Articles Listing Crops Measuring Perchlorate Levels in Lettuce Scientists Identify Cold Tolerant Gene That May Improve Crop Hardiness ... return to media home

88. GRDC - Media Release - New Attack On An Old Problem - Crown Rot (North, 8 March under the GRDC’s Eastern Farming Systems project on the Liverpool Plains, wherethe major problem was stubble loads after big grain crops. media Releases. Top. http://www.grdc.com.au/whats_on/mr/north/northern_region04008.htm

Northern Region: 8 March 2004 New attack on an old problem - Crown rot New fronts are opening up in the long and complex scientific assault on the cereal disease crown rot, which costs Australian graingrowers an estimated $56 million a year. Stephen Simpfendorfer, Tamworth based pathologist with NSW Agriculture ( left ), told advisers and growers at Grains Research Updates in Dubbo, Nyngan and Narrabri the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) had brought seven projects together in a Strategic Initiative on crown rot, common root rot and Fusarium head blight. The NSW Agriculture team at Tamworth was concentrating on disease management, with the effects of rotations on crown rot and their interactions with soil biology being a major thrust of the research. Dr Simpfendorfer said measurements of wheat stubble cover following various rotation crops in 2002 showed remaining stubble cover to be greatest after wheat (85%), then chickpea (40%), canola (29%) faba beans (27%) and lowest following sorghum (15%). Laboratory experiments had shown wheat plants colonised by trichoderma totally excluded the crown rot fungus. But others found that the fungi needed three months, at a temperature of 30 degrees, in moist soil, for best displacement of the crown rot fungus. They were not likely to get that in many years.

89. GRDC - Media Release - Summer Soaks Offer Salinity Solution (West, 11 Feb 2004) agronomic and financial performance of different warm season crops while monitoringtheir impact on subsequent annuals and the water table. media contact Dr http://www.grdc.com.au/whats_on/mr/west/western_region04005.htm

Western Region: 11 February 2004 Summer soaks offer salinity solution In areas where significant summer rainfall can escape into the water table to draw saline water up the soil profile, warm season crops may be used as soaks to utilise that rainfall and limit recharge the following winter. CSIRO has helped develop a model which predicts summer crop growth and grain yield using historic climate data to assess the risk or return potential of specific summer crops at locations around the south coast. Results indicate that production relates to soil moisture at the start of the season, making summer cropping a feasible option in Esperance once every five years. In addition to grain and fodder production, summer crops may be valuable for their contribution to farming systems, with south coast growers showing interest in biological soil ameliorants, such as pigeon pea, which can break open sub-soil channels for the roots of winter annuals. Supported by growers and the Federal Government through the GRDC, the project will continue to appraise the agronomic and financial performance of different warm season crops while monitoring their impact on subsequent annuals and the water table.

90. Crops: Chrysanthemum The media should be moist, or allowed to dry only slightly between waterings Mostgood pot mum growers have the crops on some form of automatic watering system http://www.ag.auburn.edu/landscape/Potmum.htm

CHRYSANTHEMUM Commercial Greenhouse Production Scientific Name: Dendranthema grandiflora Common Name: Pot Mum Family: Asteraceae Dr. J. Raymond Kessler, Jr. Auburn University History The Florists' potted chrysanthemum is a complex hybrid composed of crosses among several annual and perennial species native to China. Though grown by the Chinese for over 2000 years, cultivars were not available in Europe until the 1800s. In the United States around 1889, Elmer D. Smith hybridized and named over 500 cultivars. However, real development of the chrysanthemum as a pot crop has occurred since the 1940's. The chrysanthemum used in pot culture today is a hardy or semi-hardy herbaceous perennial with flowers in a wide range of colors. Flower The chrysanthemum is a composite inflorescence with the individual flowers borne on a flat or convex receptacle called a capitulum . The capitulum is surrounded by an involucre of bracts. A single flower head has one or more outside rows of ray flowers , which are pistillate and a center (brown or green "eye") composed of disk flowers , which are dioecious.

91. INTERACTION BETWEEN ROOT MEDIA AND FERTILIZER FOR CUCUMBER CROPS GROWN IN GREENH on Soil and Soilless media under Protected Cultivation in Mild Winter ClimatesINTERACTION BETWEEN ROOT media AND FERTILIZER FOR CUCUMBER crops GROWN IN http://www.actahort.org/books/323/323_21.htm

Acta Horticulturae Home Login ... Search ISHS Acta Horticulturae 323: Symposium on Soil and Soilless Media under Protected Cultivation in Mild Winter Climates INTERACTION BETWEEN ROOT MEDIA AND FERTILIZER FOR CUCUMBER CROPS GROWN IN GREENHOUSES Authors: A.S. El-Beltagy, A.F. Abou-Hadid, S.A. Gaafer, S.M. Youssef Abstract: The experiment was carried out in Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. Four root media were selected as follows: Peat (P) + Sand (S), P + Vermiculite (V), P + V + S, and P + S + Perlite(p.). Water was applied by means of a sub-irrigation system. Nitrogen was applied as a base fertilizer or as a solution with water. Cucumber seedlings, cv. Corona F1, were obtained from Rockwool with base N-fertilizer to P + V and/or P + V + S media. Plant growth parameter, i.e., leaf number, leaf area, plant height, stem diameter, were determined in addition to plant water applied and drained. Full Text (PDF format, 172884 bytes) Full Text e-mail service Citation Download Adobe Acrobat Reader (free software to read PDF files) URL www.actahort.org

92. World Media Watch On BuzzFlash.com now is who Sokolov s deputies will be, said Anna Kachkayeva, a media analystfor 5//The Independent, UKGM crops ARE GIVEN QUALIFIED GOAHEAD (The long http://www.buzzflash.com/mediawatch/04/03/wmw04026.html

BuzzFlash.com's World Media Watch by Gloria R. Lalumia March 10, 2004 MEDIA WATCH ARCHIVES Support BuzzFlash Get a copy of click image BuzzFlash Content Interviews P.M. Carpenter Maureen Farrell World Media Watch ... and Support BuzzFlash World Media Watch by Gloria R. Lalumia BUZZFLASH NOTE: Once again, these are the views and perspectives of the individual papers, not of BuzzFlash or Gloria. They offer BuzzFlash readers a way of reading what other nations are saying about the crisis, whether we like it or not. We repeat: This is not an endorsement of their viewpoints.

93. JOINT MEDIA RELEASE 27th March 2002 JOINT media RELEASE 27 th March 2002. GM crops CAUSE MASSIVE, UNMANAGEABLECONTAMINATION. Europe cannot ignore official warnings, say http://www.foeeurope.org/press/GL_27.03.02_GM_Crops.htm

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE th March 2002 GM CROPS CAUSE MASSIVE, UNMANAGEABLE CONTAMINATION Europe cannot ignore official warnings, say leading environmental groups Brussels, 27.03.2002 – Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FoE) and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) today urged EU governments and the European Commission to safeguard European agriculture and biodiversity by preventing any genetically modified (GM) crops of beet and oilseed rape being grown in the EU. A recent report by the European Environmental Agency (EEA) [1] confirmed a risk of massive contamination if GM crops are commercially grown in Europe. Based on the EEA’s conclusions, such a risk is unmanageable particularly for oilseed rape and beet, the environmental NGOs said. In its report, the EEA warned that: “oilseed rape can be described as a high risk crop for crop-to-crop gene flow and from crops to wild relatives  It is predicted that plants carrying multiple [herbicide] resistance genes will become common post-GM release  Oilseed rape is cross compatible with a number of wild relatives and thus the likelihood of gene flow to these species is high”. The problem was already recognised by the French government, which banned cultivation of GM oilseed rape in 1998.[2] Agrochemical companies are now actively marketing new chemicals designed to deal with herbicide-tolerant superweeds. Rather than GM crops reducing the use of harmful chemicals as the biotech industry claimed, weedkiller applications for herbicide-tolerant oilseed rape in Canada are actually higher than for conventional oilseed rape. Between 1997-2000, there was an average of 2.13 herbicide applications per crop with GM Roundup Ready and Liberty Link crops, compared to 1.78 applications for conventional varieties.[5]

94. Crops Just Peachy For Growers In Sandhills - WRAL Windows media, 56K, 200K. crops Just Peachy For Growers In Sandhills The wet weatherhas taken a bite out of peach production in some states, but in North Carolina http://www.wral.com/video/2395697/detail.html

Crops Just Peachy For Growers In Sandhills The wet weather has taken a bite out of peach production in some states, but in North Carolina, it has been a good year. Peaches are a $10 million business in our state. The season is growing as are the varieties of peaches grown.

95. Abare Media Release crops contact. John Hogan, +61 2 6272 2056, jhogan@abare.gov.au, General mediacontact. KierraJade Sanders, +61 2 6272 2303, ksanders@abare.gov.au, Webmaster. http://www.abare.gov.au/pages/media/2004/17feb.html

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96. Organic Valley - Who We Are - In The Media the Farmer Protection Act (S.164), a bill to hold bio tech corporations liablefor unintended contamination of conventional or organic crops by genetically http://www.organicvalley.coop/who/organics_newsdetail.php?id=204

97. AMA (CSA) Featured CSA Report Genetically Modified Crops And Foods (I-00) Full T Discusses the technology, safety, and regulation of genetically modified crops and foods. have issued reports on selected aspects of GM crops and foods in the last 2 years.111 sprayed with http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/2036-4030.html

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98. University Of California Agriculture And Natural Resources Publications to your custom catalog. Cultural Weed Control in Vegetable crops Language EnglishMedia - Video Price $ 15.00 / 1 to shopping basket. to your custom catalog. http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/merchant.ihtml?id=196&step=2

99. USDA, Farm Service Agency - Media Gallery Quick Search. media Gallery. FSA media Gallery FSA Home Page FSA Services FSA media Gallery Home. Enter a topic or a state to search our database. http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/absoluteig/gallery.asp?categoryid=63

100. Black Root Rot Of Greenhouse Floral Crops, HYG-3066-96 crops grown under conditions that are too cool or too warm are often subject to this Growingmedia with a pH above 5.56.0 are also conducive to black root rot http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/3000/3066.html

Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet Plant Pathology 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1087 Black Root Rot of Greenhouse Floral Crops HYG-3066-96 Stephen Nameth Black root rot is a common and destructive fungal disease on greenhouse floral crops. The disease is widespread, having been reported on many different plants including poinsettia, geranium, fuchsia, pansy, vincas, petunia, etc. The fungus is soil-borne and is capable of living in soils as a saprophyte (without causing disease) and surviving in soil and dust for years via tiny, thick-walled spores called chlamydospores. Plants may be infected but not show symptoms until the plant undergoes some form of stress. Symptoms Causal Fungus and Disease Development Black root rot is caused by the fungus, Thielaviopsis basicola. As mentioned earlier, the fungus is very common and widespread. It has a wide host range and affects many other hosts besides greenhouse floral crops. Thielaviopsis can spread between greenhouses or between crops within a greenhouse in many ways. Long distance spread between greenhouses occurs via the movement of infested (but not necessarily diseased) plant material. Many of our specialized plug producers control crop stresses so well that an infestation of their material goes undetected by all parties until the plants are stressed in shipment or transplanting. Infested plugs are not the only way your crop can get black root rot. Thielaviopsis also has the potential to enter a greenhouse via wind blown dust or in growing media. Once within a greenhouse, there are many situations that can result in the pathogen becoming a long term resident. Thielaviopsis has a broad host range, and its saprophytic nature may allow it to continue to grow, spread and survive on many plants in the greenhouse that may appear symptomless or nearly so.

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