Scientific newssheets
Structure of the yellow rice mottle virus determined for the first time
January 2001
Scientists from IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement, ex-ORSTOM), the Scripps Research Institute and the International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural technology (ILTAB) have succeeded, after several years of research, in reconstructing a three-dimensional model of the rice ...When light helps symbiont bacteria associate with plants to fix nitrogen
January 2001
Certain leguminous plants which live in rice fields have the exceptional feature of forming nitrogen-fixing nodules on their stem surfaces.Small glaciers in the tropical Andes : a forewarning of disappearance
January 2001
In ten to fifteen years' time, the small glaciers of the Andes, which constitute 80% of all the glaciers in the tropical regions of that mountain chain, are likely to have vanished.