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Abstract: Usage of 2,4-D herbicides has been extensive in centrai Washington wheat-growing areas for many years. The rapid development of a grape industry, both Concord and Vinifera, since the early 1960’s has had periodic, widespread damage in vineyards due to drifting 2,4-D. Beginning in the Spring of 1973, programs of 2,4-D monitoring have been conducted …

Abstract: A very first description of the tastes of 11 pesticides is proposed. They are detected first in water, diluted freshly at the levels found in wines, by 36 professionals from wine or cooking in 195 blind tests at different periods. They are the most frequently found pesticides in wines in our experiment. Some animals …

Text: Quite reminiscent of the cattle-sheep wars of the Old West is the present controversy between the cotton growers and rice growers in the South. The focal point of this argument is the vast fertile area known as The Delta in the state of Mississippi. However, the controversy is going on in many other areas, …

Abstract: Several plant species, including tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum), Gynura aurantiaca, avocado (Persea americana), and grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) grafted on Troyer citrange (Poncirus trifoliata x C. sinensis) were “agro-infected” with Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA-4404, carrying a mini-Ti plasmid with a dimeric cDNA of citrus exocortis viroid (CEVd). Extracts prepared from tissues of the agroinfected plants 38-90 …

Summary: In 2000 the EEA established a special project for the European Parliament, on the dissemination of research results from technologies characterised by scientific complexity and uncertainty, such as GMOs and chemicals, and on the use of such results by the public and their representatives in their governance, including the use of the precautionary principle. …