Researchers who sequenced Phytophthora infestans, the water mold behind the Irish potato famine, report an unusually large genome whose parts evolve at different rates, a two-speed structure they say drives its adaptability. It still threatens potato and tomato crops.
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10 Ways Growing an Organic Garden Can Help Your Health and Budget
Ten arguments for growing your own organic food: studies finding more minerals and nutrients, lower grocery bills, less pesticide exposure for children, slowing the 3 billion tons of topsoil eroded yearly, protecting groundwater polluted in 38 states, and cutting farming's energy use.
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Correction: Tuna and toxins
Foodconsumer corrects an earlier headline: methylmercury contamination has increased in Pacific Ocean waters, not in Pacific Ocean fish. The item reprints the 2004 FDA and EPA mercury advice for women who may become pregnant, nursing mothers and young children.
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The Buzz about the Bees
Spanish researchers have isolated and treated Nosema ceranae, a microbe thought to be one cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, the National Academy of Sciences reports. USDA says hive losses of 30 to 90 percent began in 2006 and calls their magnitude highly unusual.
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Swine flu studied since the 1960s
An early-outbreak tally: CDC listed 226 confirmed U.S. swine flu cases across 30 states, Bloomberg later 241 in 34, while WHO counted 898 cases in 18 countries, including 506 cases and 19 deaths in Mexico. Canada reported the virus in an Alberta swine herd.
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USDA Report Assesses 2008 Corn and Soybean Acreage
USDA's June Acreage report put 2008 corn plantings at 87.3 million acres, down 7 percent, with 78.9 million expected for grain, and soybeans at 74.5 million, up 17 percent. Re-interviews in flooded states showed harvest intentions off about 2 percent.
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