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    Obese pets, reverse ageing and heat stress…

    2 December, 20102 December, 2010

    This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about obese pets; reversing ageing; how your mother is to blame for your sense of taste; the peril of heat stress; and more…

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    The caveman's kitchen, T.rex revelations, slowing wind and more. Tim on radio this week.

    20 October, 2010

    This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about slowing wind; love and pain; cane toad caviar; shining light inside your body; and more…

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    The caveman’s kitchen, T.rex revelations, slowing wind and more. Tim on radio this week.

    20 October, 201018 May, 2012

    This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about slowing wind; love and pain; cane toad caviar; shining light inside your body; and more…

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    Charging MP3 players with beach towels, carrying brains overseas, flu vaccinations and more. Tim on radio this week.

    6 October, 201018 May, 2012

    This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about using your beach towel to charge your MP3 player; carrying brains overseas; flu vaccinations; healthy fruit extracts; and more…

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    Plants protect plants and triple yields in East Africa

    8 July, 201011 July, 2010

    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 scientists. Termed “Push-Pull’, it relies on strategically deploying attractive and repellent plants in alternating rows to control the growth of African witchweed and stemborer insects….

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    Worst locust plague in 30 years this summer

    7 July, 20102 August, 2010

    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 and what can be done to reduce their impact.

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    Can we feed nine billion people by 2050?

    7 July, 201018 May, 2012

    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 pace, with the poorest benefiting most. Yet one billion people are malnourished and live below the poverty line.

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    Vegetable oil to lubricate your car, tractor and truck

    7 July, 201017 April, 2012

    IUPAC Symposium 6B – Crop Biofactories: Plants as Sustainable Bio-Production Systems for Industrial Raw Materials, Wednesday 3:30pm Sten Stymne, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Vegetable oil is the agricultural product that chemically most resembles fossil oils and has therefore great potential to replace it, says Sweden’s Sten Stymne. He’s part of an 11-million-Euro global project…

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    What difference is GM making to Australian cotton crops?

    6 July, 201011 July, 2010

    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 back against Helicoverpa – arguably the most destructive agricultural pest in the world.  Bollgard II varieties now make up 90% of the…

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    Use your spray smarter: save money and the environment

    6 July, 201017 April, 2012

    IUPAC Symposium 4B – Formulation, Efficacy and the Environment Monday 4:30pm Heping Zhu, United States Department of Agriculture “Current label-recommended levels of pesticides for spray application technology, pest pressure and crop growth structure are vague, frequently resulting in excessive use of pesticide,” says Heping Zhu from the USDA in Ohio.

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