De la plante à la graine : faire ses semences et multiplier ses plantes, de Sigrid Drage – Editions Ulmer, 14 mars 2024 – 240 illustrations – 240 pages Rétablir les cycles du vivant, économiser les ressources, préserver les variétés rares : la révolution de la multiplication des plantes pour la
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Le Parlement européen a approuvé une proposition d’assouplissement réglementaire pour certaines variétés de végétaux issues des « nouvelles techniques génomiques » (NGT). Ces « nouveaux OGM » utilisent une kyrielle d’outils, comme les ciseaux moléculaires Crispr-Cas 9, pour éditer et modifier le matériel génétique des plantes afin de leur conférer des qualités nouvelles gustatives,
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Le langage silencieux des plantes, de Yvan KRAEPIEL et Sylvain RAFFAELE – Editions Quae, 15 juin 2023 – 168 pages « Le Chêne un jour dit au Roseau : “Vous avez bien sujet d’accuser la Nature ; un roitelet pour vous est un pesant fardeau.” » Quand Jean de La
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Comme des bruissements incertains dans les sols sédimentaires, quelques plantes portent en elles les mémoires et les histoires qui s’y sont déposées avec le temps. Mûrier de Chine, ébène du Gabon, buis de Perse ou encore frêne, genêt, les lierre, ronce et ortie sont autant de plantes qui ont croisé
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Terra Botanica, Europe's 1st theme park dedicated to the world of plants and biodiversity, boasts some 50 events and attractions on its 22-hectare site. Among them are three areas where visitors can come to find techniques and advice on eco-friendly gardening: the Jardin sans
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During the cold season, the seeds of the plants sleep. As soon as the weather conditions become optimal, the miracle of Spring wakes them up and they start to germinate. An extraordinary internal clock that sets the rhythm of the plant cycle, observed by all gardeners since the dawn of time. What
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For a very long time we have considered plant life as a form of life inferior between the mineral and the animal, that of a vegetative state precisely. Plants were the Lumpenproletariat of life, those that organize the interface between the organic and the inorganic, but whose existence would reflect their function of intermediation:
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Fruits et légumes «made in space». Les dérèglements climatiques produisent des effets que l’on peut déjà observer sur notre planète : sécheresse, désertifications, épisodes météorologiques extrêmes… Autant de catastrophes qui ont un impact direct sur l’agriculture et l’approvisionnement alimentaire d’une bonne part de l’humanité. Face à ce désastre annoncé, des
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Human activity poses risks that have not yet been properly assessed to these complex communication networks that are the odours of nature. Agricultural processing industries, agricultural activities and livestock breeding produce large quantities of volatile organic compounds that mix with natural sources. To aggravate
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Ce que les peuples racines ont à nous dire - De la santé des hommes et de la santé du monde, by Frederika Van Ingen - Editions Les liens qui libèrent (LLL), January 2020 - 368 Pages How can the knowledge of the root peoples inspire us in our approach to
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Human activity poses risks that have not yet been properly assessed to these complex communication networks that are the odours of nature. Agricultural processing industries, agricultural activities and livestock breeding produce large quantities of volatile organic compounds that mix with natural sources. To aggravate
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It cannot be said that the Arctic has never accustomed us to lush vegetation. The expanses of ice, the blizzard-swept plains, provide an unfriendly environment for plants. The only plants that can withstand these extreme cold temperatures are usually shrubs of very low growth.
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Man-made greenhouse gas emissions threaten to make rice less nutritious. This is the alarming finding of scientists in a study published on May 23. A major risk threatening the staple food of billions of people. Scientists found that rice contains
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The world bestseller by Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso has finally been published in French. L'Intelligence des plantes is a book that stirs. In it, the author multiplies the evidence supporting his sometimes controversial hypothesis: plants are living beings endowed with a certain form of intelligence. If we only discover this truth today,
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The next food on your plate will be genetically modified, but it will not be a GMO in the conventional sense. It will have been modified using CRISPR, a new technique that allows scientists to fine-tune the DNA of a plant to give it a better taste,
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From now on you will have to look at the plants that bloom in our gardens or in our countryside with a different eye. They may be spies. James Bond hadn't even thought of that. A program of the U.S. Army Research Agency (DARPA) is
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For a very long time, the scientific community considered that plants, although they were certainly capable of adapting to changes in their environment through the mechanisms of natural selection, lacked a nervous system and the ability to learn - as is the case in
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This is good news for biodiversity. More than 28,000 plant species are currently listed as having medicinal uses, reveals a report published on Thursday 18 May by the Botanic Research Centre at Kew Gardens in London. In total, the report, which aims to
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More than one hundred specimens of flowering plants, dating from the 19th century and belonging to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, were destroyed by Australian Customs in charge of biosecurity. This is the incredible story revealed by The Guardian on Monday 8 May. These plants, which dated
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Currently, several new genetic modification techniques are being discussed to determine whether or not the products derived from them will be regulated as transgenic GMOs. This article by Eric Meunier of the journal inf'OGM allows us to understand some of the potential risks associated with the mere introduction of transgenic GMOs.
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