Have we banished the hungry gap? Pat Heslop-Harrison has been talking to BBC Radio Leicester.
Tag - agronomy
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
A new angle on enhancing crop yield
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on - as Nigel Chaffey finds out.
Nigel Chaffey
Plant Records: An ever increasing pot of gold
Name: Maize or Corn Scientific name: Zea mays Known for: Food of the Gods (or Blasphemy against them when in Corn Dogs) Record broken: Yields I expect most of you have limited direct experience with many of our other...
Nano? NaYES!
Nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) may aid the use of organic Phosphorus in plants.
Spotlight on macronutrients: Phosphorus… and Potassium
It’s a little naughty to consider these two elements together, I know, because this may unintentionally add to the confusion that often ensues in class when you ask students to tell you the full chemical names for...
Potential new fertiliser
This month’s winner in the ‘so simple it’s positively brilliant (but why did nobody think of it before?)’ category is Damar López-Arredondo and Luis Herrera-Estrella’s paper entitled, ‘Engineering phosphorous [sic.]...
