1992 - Volume 34, Issue 4 | by Danesi, P.R. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf (Austria). Laboratories) This article highlights the contribution to sustainable agricultural development of various nuclear techniques, and describes the methods developed and promoted by the IAEA's Laboratories at Seibersdorf and Vienna. After a general introduction to the applications of nuclear
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1992 - Volume 34, Issue 4 | by Richards, J.I. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf (Austria). Laboratories) The Agriculture Laboratory of the IAEA's Seibersdorf Laboratories aims to assist developing countries to apply appropriate nuclear and related technologies to agricultural research. Research and development, training and technical support are all included in the Laboratory's
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1992 - Volume 34, Issue 4 | by Lindquist, D.A. (Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna (Austria)); Abusowa, M. (Libyan Veterinary Services, Tripoli (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)) This article reviews the joint FAO/IAEA program to eradicate the New World Screwworm from Libya. The sterile insect technique was employed, and the success of the program is shown by the fact that Libya was declared free of the parasite in June 1992: the eradication program was
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1992 - Volume 34, Issue 4 | by Novak, F.J.; Brunner, H. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf (Austria). Laboratories) Plant breeding requires genetic variation of useful traits for crop improvement, but the desired variation is often lacking. Mutagenic agents, such as radiation and certain chemicals, can be used to induce mutations and generate genetic variations from which desirable mutants
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1992 - Volume 34, Issue 4 | by Wright, P.F. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf (Austria). Laboratories) The diagnosis of infectious diseases is one of the major animal health activities within the programme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. The Animal Production Unit at the IAEA's Seibersdorf Laboratories provides support to this
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1992 - Volume 34, Issue 4 | by Moy, D. (World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). Food Safety Unit) In view on the enormous health and economic consequences of foodborne diseases, irradiation decontamination and disinfestation of pathogen-containing foods must be considered one of the most significant recent contributions to public health made by food science and technology.
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