What does food do – time to move beyond the glycaemic index It’s time to get smarter about food labelling according to Dr John Monro, speaking at the international chemistry conference in Melbourne …
Spinning the world clean
Prof Colin Raston and his colleagues in the Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication at the University of Western Australia are setting about cleaning up the world—and chemical industry in …
Eight for apples, 46 for muffins and other chemistry stories
Eight for apples, 46 for muffins Plants protect plants and triple yields in East Africa Spinning the world clean Thursday, 8 July 2010 at Chemistry for a Sustainable World, an international …
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Plants protect plants and triple yields in East Africa
More than 30,000 East African farmers are using plants to protect their corn (maize) crops from insect and weed attack. The crop protection strategy was developed by Kenyan and UK …
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Locust plagues, feeding nine billion people and vegetable oil for your car, tractor and truck
Worst locust plague in 30 years this summer Can we feed nine billion people by 2050? Vegetable oil to lubricate your car, tractor and truck Wednesday, 7 July 2010 at Chemistry for a …
Worst locust plague in 30 years this summer
Victorian farmers are in a phony war right now – but in spring the invasion will come. We’re likely to see the worst locust plague for 30 years. David Hunter will tell the conference how plagues occur …
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Can we feed nine billion people by 2050?
IUPAC Plenary Six and Seven, Wednesday 9:45am Chris Leaver, University of Oxford The world’s population has more than doubled in the past 50 years and the relative abundance of food has kept …
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Vegetable oil to lubricate your car, tractor and truck
IUPAC Symposium 6B - Crop Biofactories: Plants as Sustainable Bio-Production Systems for Industrial Raw Materials, Wednesday 3:30pm Sten Stymne, Swedish University of Agricultural …
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Weed fighting lawns, a new chick magnet, potato flakes for breakfast and is GM working for cotton growers?
Today at Tuesday, 6 July 2010 at Chemistry for a Sustainable World an international conference organised by RACI, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. …
Could your lawn, golf course or pasture make its own weedkiller?
IUPAC Symposium 4A - Natural Products, Tuesday 1:45PM - 3:00PM Leslie Weston, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga Leslie Weston has discovered and patented two weedkillers made by plants. Now …
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What difference is GM making to Australian cotton crops?
IUPAC Symposium 3B - Changing Pesticide use and Risk Scenarios with the Introduction of GM Crops Monday 3:30pm Gary Fitt, CSIRO Entomology GM cotton was released in 1996, as part of the fight …
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New perfumes for bugs
IUPAC Symposium 4B - Natural Products, Tuesday 4pm John Pickett, Rothamsted Research John Pickett and his British colleagues are creating new kinds of perfumes or attractants for pest …