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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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How do bacteria help and harm crops? However, some bacteria cause diseases that can drastically reduce rice harvests, potentially leading to famine. Meanwhile, other bacteria are beneficial for soybean plants, as they help produce important nutrients.

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How do plants protect themselves from diseases?

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How do plants protect themselves from diseases? Understanding how plants fight pathogens is, therefore, crucial to protecting crops and combatting food insecurity. Her research may help to identify new ways of protecting crop species from disease. Many viruses, bacteria and fungi are plant pathogens.

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Using agrobiology to ensure sustainable food production

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Whether through the direct effect of human activity, such as deforestation and mass crop production, or the indirect impacts caused by climate change, such as droughts and floods, the natural world is under a huge amount of pressure unlike ever before. How we get our food is a huge part of this. TALK LIKE AN AGROBIOLOGIST.

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science

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Farmers often use fungicides to protect their crops from fungal diseases. AGRONOMIST – an expert in the science of soil management and crop production. PATHOGEN – a disease-causing organism, such as some bacteria, viruses, or fungi. Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science. Published: May 25, 2022.

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STEAM In History: Fionn Ferreira

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Ferreira knew he could do something to help. Though many do their best to recycle, most plastic stays in landfills for the next 1,000 years! As we consume crops and animals, we are essentially ingesting the microplastics within them. Who is Fionn Ferreira? Like many adventurous teenagers, Fionn Ferreira enjoyed kayaking.

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Predicting the future: the power of modelling

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It is difficult for us as individuals to feel that we can do anything about global challenges – such as climate change, pandemics, antibiotic resistance and sustainable food production. MODEL – in science, a mathematical representation of how one or more parameters cause a change in criteria.