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Employees: how to keep the best ones |
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Written by Dave Harrison
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March 1, 2011 – How can an organization hold onto the employees they
don’t want to lose? Make sure they have work that gives them joy and
meaning, a study from the BI Norwegian School of Management shows.
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‘Intelligent irrigation’ big on savings |
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Written by Dave Harrison
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Feb. 18, 2011, Wageningen, the Netherlands – Sensors and
decision-support software can help horticultural growers reduce water
consumption by 60 per cent and use 30 per cent less fertilizer without
sacrificing yield and quality.
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A polyamine way to extend shelf life |
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Written by Dennis O’Brien
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Feb. 16, 2011 – Tomatoes spend so much time on shelves and in
refrigerators that an estimated 20 per cent are lost to spoilage,
according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). But scientists
with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are working with
colleagues at Purdue University to extend the shelf life of tomatoes.
The research also may lead to tomatoes that taste better and are more
nutritious.
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Where did flowers come from? |
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Written by University of Buffalo
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Feb. 14, 2011, Buffalo, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo is a key
partner in a $7.3 million, multi-institution collaboration to explore
the origins of all flowers by sequencing the genome of Amborella, a
unique species that one researcher has nicknamed the "platypus of
flowering plants."
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Why the wealth of orchid varieties in nature? |
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Written by Dave Harrison
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Feb. 1, 2011, London, England – Scientists have discovered why orchids
are one of the most successful groups of flowering plants - it is all
down to their relationships with the bees that pollinate them and the
fungi that nourish them.
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