In one of the older Star Wars movies, Jedi master Yoda instructs his apprentice, Luke, on the ways of the Force in a series of now-iconic scenes. The Force, Yoda says, is an energy field that penetrates us, that surrounds ...
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Jul 10, 2018
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Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and collaborators in China and France have produced the first high-quality genome sequence for the bottle gourd (Lagenaria ...
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Dec 1, 2017
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New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe.
Biotechnology
Sep 21, 2017
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We are inching closer to using light to help cure diseases. The key is harnessing the power of proteins that are sensitive to light.
Biotechnology
Sep 21, 2017
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In research published in The Plant Journal, a group of scientists led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have decoded the genome of Glycyrrhiza uralensis, or Chinese licorice, a ...
Biotechnology
Nov 4, 2016
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Throughout the growing season seemingly benign clouds pass over millions of acres of crops, causing rapid fluctuations in light intensity and inadvertently robbing these plants of their productivity—this costs us untold ...
Biotechnology
Sep 13, 2016
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Plants are able to predict when infections are more likely to occur and regulate their immune response accordingly, new research has found.
Biotechnology
Dec 16, 2015
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Adding a spoonful of sugar to coffee makes it sweeter, but in plants, researchers have discovered, the addition of sugar molecules to particular proteins plays a surprising variety of roles in basic developmental processes.
Biotechnology
Nov 20, 2015
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Like humans, plants are surrounded by and closely associated with microbes. The majority of these microbes are beneficial, but some can cause devastating disease. Maintaining the balance between them is critical. Plants feed ...
Biotechnology
Oct 19, 2015
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Barley, a widely grown cereal grain commonly used to make beer and other alcoholic beverages, possesses a large and highly repetitive genome that is difficult to fully sequence. Now a team led by scientists at the University ...
Biotechnology
Aug 25, 2015
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