Hard to believe, it's been almost 20 years ago that I took a train from London to Canterbury and for a fleeting moment saw fields of gold blur past the window. Nine years later, I recreated that memory and now even more time has passed.
(1/3)
US HHS nominee seeks more scrutiny of food industry https://www.diningandcooking.com/1866005/us-hhs-nominee-seeks-more-scrutiny-of-food-industry/ #Barley #canola #Corn #CornMilling #CornWetMilling #feed #FeedMilling #Flour #FlourAdditives #FlourMilling #food #GrainIndustry #maize #rapeseed #Rice #Sorghum #SoslandPublishing #Soy #soya #soybeans #Wheat #WorldGrain
Dai et al report that BnaSTOP2 zinc finger transcription factors regulate sulfur #metabolism and confer #Sclerotinia resistance in #rapeseed--with potential implications for #crop #breeding programs.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13801
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #PlantSci #phytopathology #botany
(2/x) Fact I.4: The importance of #rapeseed in the EU increased in part due to rapeseed oil use as feedstock for #biodiesel production. Its co-product, rapeseed meal is used by all the #livestock sectors: https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/crop-productions-and-plant-based-products/cereals/reducing-plan-protein-deficit-eu_en #canola
Tracing responsibility for #honeybee losses in rural #Ukraine points to farmers and pesticide-treated #rapeseed fields. But whose practices really lie behind the short-term bid to increase #cropproductivity? And what do the historic uses of #agrochemicals tell us about their current weaponization? Iryna Zamuruieva via IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
My walk today was covered in rapeseed bloom- such a happy bright yellow!
Photo in portrait, click to view