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This grass may hold the key to improving milk yields from cows kept by small-scale farmers across the African continent.
If species already modify their genes, why shouldn’t we?
Recent summers have offered a taste of things to come for Welsh farmers.
Along with climate change and drought, invasive grasses are promoting wildfires across the US, even in areas that don’t normally burn.
Not only can plants survive fire, they can use the experience of being burned to prepare themselves for future blazes.
Cities around Australia have plans to increase their green space, but new research shows not all green spaces are equal. Good tree cover is better than grassed areas for residents’ mental health.
Weeds are serious problems on sports fields, parks and other sites covered with turfgrass. A new strategy uses mechanical force to kill them instead of chemical herbicides.
Pollen counts focus on the amount of grains in the air, but it could be the species that are more important.
Keeping urban habitats such as parks neat and tidy by removing dead wood and leaves is driving the species which live there to extinction.
Spinifex grass is a (slightly ugly) Aussie battler that keeps on giving.
Unlocking the genetic code of certain grasses could help allergy sufferers.
As summer rolls on once again you’re despairing at a brown lawn. Perhaps you should embrace a shabbier backyard.
Australia may have reputation for vast areas of wilderness, but in reality the continent’s ecosystems have been chopped and diced. Now we need to protect what’s left.
Weeds cost Australian farmers around A$4 billion every year — and they are likely to do a similar amount of damage to the environment. In a new global survey published this week in Proceedings of the National…
An algae gene has enabled plants to store lipids and vegetable oil in its leaves. Unlike seeds, plants do not typically store…
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