Rooting News

This summer we participated in a big project by which Ukrainian scientists tried to trace roots of first Ukrainian Dukes. We made a GPR survey in Volodymyr-Volynsky, old city in Eastern Ukraine where one of our Dukes was born. 1+1 TV channel created a movie about this investigation. You can watch this movie here (in Ukrainian). ...

Sep. 19, 2017

By Transient Technologies LLC

Convergence opened a new facility on the campus of Twente University. The campus, where Convergence originally started, offers space and opportunities to build systems under ISO7 conditions. The opening of this new facility reflects ambition and growth of Convergence. The campus is familiar territory for Convergence. The High Tech Factory was the former location of MESA+ Institute, which has ...

Oct. 18, 2016

By Convergence Industry B.V.

We should never underestimate the importance of roots. Good plant roots are essential for water and nutrient uptake and as such have a significant influence on crop health and yield. Whatever the autumn weather, stimulating the development of deeper root systems will improve the plant’s ability to access the nutrients and water required for establishment and early growth. ...

Sep. 7, 2016

By Ilex EnviroSciences Limited

This season’s wet conditions brought increased sales of our manganese phosphite Maniphos as growers sought to boost root development and natural disease resistance in peas and beans. Initial feedback has been very positive. Farming in Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, James Fountain applied two applications of Maniphos at 3.5 litres per hectare to his field beans and is very impressed ...

Aug. 25, 2016

By Ilex EnviroSciences Limited

A good start in life can go a long way in ensuring good health in the future. That’s just as true for tree as it is for people. And Vineland Research and Innovation Centre scientist Darby McGrath is leading a team to make sure young trees get off to the very best start in life they can. McGrath and her team are working on new propagation trays that they say improve root structure and ...

Jul. 21, 2016

By Vineland Research and Innovations Centre Inc

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (Vineland) is revolutionizing propagation  systems for the nursery sector through a tray design supporting superior tree root  growth. There is an increasing demand for container tree seedling production  – plug trays  – in North America and a greater focus on higher quality root architecture. Many  current propagation ...

Jul. 14, 2016

By Vineland Research and Innovations Centre Inc

RainWise, Inc., www.rainwise.com, is pleased to be celebrating more than 40 years of devotion to our clients based on our promise to helping both small and large scale farmers produce more from their land, while conserving resources like water and energy to help build a flourishing ...

Jul. 13, 2016

By RainWise Inc.

Scientists recommend policies that alternate between mowing and grazing to manage Europe’s high-nature-value grasslands. This comes after a new seven-year study found that a high plant-species diversity helps grasslands to maintain productivity and to resist depletion of phosphorus caused by livestock grazing and depletion of potassium caused by mowing. Grasslands with high levels of ...

Sep. 3, 2015

By European Commission, Environment DG

Sometimes, the old-fashioned ways are the best ways. Back before chemical pesticides and herbicides, farmers had to come up with ways to kill the weeds that took over their fields. One method used “back in the day” was letting pigs loose in fields that were not being used for crops for a season and allowing the pigs to do what they do naturally: dig up the roots of weeds and ...

Jul. 27, 2015

By The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

Aged  only six months, the new-born subsidiary “Castolin West Africa Ltd”, with the headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, is already showing great progress with its engineering team and facilities construction well underway. Castolin Eutectic and Deefort Ent. International Ltd. teamed up via a Joint Venture agreement in December 2014 (Frankfurt, Germany) to ...

Jul. 17, 2015

By Castolin Eutectic

An Unwelcome Disruption For many employees, training is about as attractive as root canal surgery. It usually arrives at the worst possible time, with little to no explanation as to why you need to attend. Nobody will be picking up your work while you’re in the class, which means that you’ll either be running out at every break to feverishly scan through emails ...

Jun. 24, 2015

By Convergepoint

As an increasingly bloody civil war raged around them, a team of scientists in the Syrian capital Aleppo quietly packaged and shipped a series of nondescript cardboard boxes to an island not far from the North Pole. The boxes bore no sign of the conflict that had surrounded them or the precious material ...

May 20, 2015

By SciDev.Net

To understand the bases of mutualistic symbiosis between soil mycorrhizal fungi and plants, an international consortium of researchers conducted the first broad, comparative phylogenomic analysis of mycorrhizal fungi. Scientists describe how the comparative analyses of 18 new fungal genomes allowed them to track the evolution of symbiotic fungi interacting with trees, heath plants and orchids. ...

Feb. 23, 2015

By INRA - French National Institute of Agronomical Research

POS Analytical Services now offers quantitative analysis of ginsenosides, a class of steroid glycosides considered to be the biologically active component of ginseng. Discovered more than 5,000 years ago, Chinese herbalists have prescribed ginseng for everything from normalizing blood pressure to improving blood circulation to preventing heart disease for centuries. Ginsenosides in particular ...

Feb. 17, 2015

By POS Bio-Sciences

Survival of field-grown trees grown for transplanting into landscapes depends on many factors, such as transplant timing and tree size. Species-specific characteristics also contribute to trees' ability to withstand and survive environmental stresses. In a newly published study researchers report on the relationship between tree roots' hydraulic conductance -- the roots' ability to take up water ...

Jan. 15, 2015

By American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS)

Rootless or “floppy” corn may look questionable, but under the right conditions, it can recover. Corn crops that are leaning or lodged may be impacted by rootless corn syndrome, said Peter Thomison, an Ohio State University Extension agronomist. OSU Extension is the statewide outreach arm of the university’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. ...

Jun. 23, 2014

By Ohio State University

Power management company Eaton today announced an agreement to deliver power distribution and power quality solutions to ROOT Data Center’s new state-of-the-art, Tier 3 colocation facility in Montreal, Canada. ROOT Data Center, a next-generation data center colocation provider, selected Eaton to help lower the cost of operation and enhance energy efficiency ...

Jun. 11, 2014

By Eaton Corporation

Power management company Eaton is reflecting on a legacy of innovation as its Bussmann business celebrates 100 years of operation. To commemorate the anniversary, Eaton has planned a series of events and programs designed to engage the local community, customers and employees globally to underscore the division’s history of innovation. To kick off the anniversary celebrations, Eaton has ...

May 16, 2014

By Eaton Corporation

New Energy Husum closes its doors today a thoroughly positive result. “The fair has once again shown that it is the optimal platform for players in the grass roots energy transition, and this has been substantiated by the high visitor numbers and the positive feedback from the exhibitors”, says a very pleased exhibition boss Peter Becker. Despite the challenges that the sector is ...

Mar. 21, 2014

By Krampitz Communications

Zeolite based fertilizers are known to be "smart fertilizers" due to the high cation exchange capacity (CEC) and porous crystalline structure. Zeolite is the only negatively-charged mineral in existence in the world, for these purposes it has therefore has significant uses across a wide range of applications and in particular in Agriculture applications. Zeolite has a known ability to act as a ...

Mar. 12, 2014

By Genesis Water Technologies, Inc.