http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Moths are able to enjoy a pollinator's buffet of flowers – in spite of being among the insect world's picky eaters – because of two distinct "channels" in their brains, scientists at the University of Washington and University of Arizona have discovered. http://phys.org/news274021699.html Biology Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:00:55 EST news274021699 The timing of flowering in plants is critical. It can have profound effects on flower, fruit, and seed production, and consequently agricultural yields. This process is known to depend on daylight and temperature cues. However, a team led by CSHL Assistant Professor Zach Lippman, Ph.D. now reveals there is a second, previously unknown, mechanism that controls flowering. http://phys.org/news271860153.html Biology Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:00:37 EST news271860153 The whitefly is a major problem for open field tomato cultivation throughout the world. Scientists of Wageningen UR together with a number of partners have discovered genes for resistance to the whitefly in a wild relative of the common tomato. The scientists hope that resistant varieties can be brought to market within two years, making chemical pest control unnecessary. Research into the identification of resistance to whitefly in tomatoes is the basis of Syarifin Firdaus' graduate thesis, which he will be defending at Wageningen University on 12 September. http://phys.org/news266567317.html Biology Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:28:48 EST news266567317 (Phys.org) -- The meteorite which crashed into the Earth 60 to 70 million years ago, wiping out dinosaurs, had probably given us nice red tomatoes as well. This can be deduced from a tomato genome analysis, published on 30 May in Nature. http://phys.org/news258361882.html Biology Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:11:34 EST news258361882 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered how the structure of a protein allows a certain bacteria to interfere with the tomato plant's immune system, causing bacterial speck disease. http://phys.org/news243156938.html Biology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:00:03 EST news243156938 Fungal and bacterial pathogens are well capable of infecting plants, animals and humans despite their immune systems. Fungi penetrate leafs, stalks and roots, or skin, intestines and lungs, to infect their hosts. http://phys.org/news201526521.html Biology Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:35:53 EST news201526521 (PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine in the 19th century. http://phys.org/news175523820.html Biology Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:50:01 EST news175523820 (AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. http://phys.org/news165816583.html Biology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:10:11 EST news165816583 Michigan State University plant scientists have identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that the plants were making monoterpenes, compounds that help give tomato leaves their distinctive smell, in a way that flies in the face of accepted thought. http://phys.org/news162553798.html Biology Tue, 26 May 2009 10:51:23 EST news162553798