Agriculture

  2013 MAY 16 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Week -- Fresh data on Agricultural Science are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Malaga, Spain, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "In Europe, many autochthonous grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.) are only cultivated at local scale, but play a very important economic role due to their strict relation with terroir and wine tipicity. In this study, it was pursued to evaluate the influence of several factors on performance of Moll, the main autochthonous white variety of Majorca, by means of the database coming from a clonal preselection. ...read more

  2013 MAY 16 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Week -- Current study results on Agricultural Science have been published. According to news reporting originating in Chiayi, Taiwan, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "In the last few decades, many forests have been cut down to make room for cultivation and to increase food or energy crops production in developing countries. In this study, carbon sequestration and wood production were evaluated on afforested farms by integrating the Gaussian diameter distribution model and exponential diameter-height model derived from sample plots of an afforested hardwood forest in Taiwan. ...read more

  2013 MAY 16 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Agricultural Science. According to news reporting out of Florianopolis, Brazil, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Pinus is the most invasive woody taxon, exceeded only by herbaceous plants. This study reports the reproductive biology and early establishment of Pinus elliottii Engelm. var. elliottii, describing its invasive properties in a protected natural area of the Brazilian coastal sandy plains. ...read more