Rare hibiscus color is achieved after four years
Dr. Dariusz Malinowski is seeing blue, and he is very excited.
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Boon to plant science
In both plant and animal cells, protein activity is often regulated by phosphorylation, by which a phosphate group is added to one or more sites on a protein. A team led by Ken Shirasu of RIKEN Plant Science ...
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Sundews just want to be loved
Sex can be complicated at the best of times, but plants have an extra difficulty. If you're a plant who relies on insects to pollinate your flowers and reproduce, you will want your flowerstalks to be long. ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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When flowers turn up the heat
Could a "hot" flower attract pollinators by serving as a reward in a plant-pollinator mutualism? Many flowering plants produce nectar and pollen as rewards in exchange for pollination services by insects and other animals. ...
Jul 28, 2010 |
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White eyes, foot-wide flowers, maroon plants
With a little cross-breeding and some determination, Dr. Dariusz Malinowski, Texas AgriLife Research plant physiologist and forage agronomist in Vernon, is trying to add more colors to the world of hibiscuses.
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Where the wild veggies are: Cultivated cucumber and melon originated in Asia and Australia
Sites of origin and regions of domestication of many of our most important cultivated plants are still unknown. The botanical genus Cucumis, to which both the cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and the honeydew melon (C. melo) bel ...
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Thousands of undiscovered plant species face extinction
Faced with threats such as habitat loss and climate change, thousands of rare flowering plant species worldwide may become extinct before scientists can even discover them, according to a paper published today by a trio of ...
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Changing climate could alter meadows' ecosystems, researcher says
Changing climate could affect the diversity of plants and animals, and we can get a glimpse of what this may look like by studying the effects of drought in a relatively pristine ecosystem, according to an ...
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Jul 06, 2010 |
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Flowering and freezing tolerance linked in wheat, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by UC Davis wheat geneticist Jorge Dubcovsky and his colleagues could lead to new strategies for improving freezing tolerance in wheat, which provides more than one-fifth of the calories consumed ...
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Geneticists shed light on flowering plants
A team of researchers from Warwick have isolated a gene responsible for regulating the expression of CONSTANS, an important inducer of flowering, in Arabidopsis.
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter
The world is a cooler, wetter place because of flowering plants, according to new climate simulation results published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The effect is especially pronounced in the ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Plants spice up their sex life with defensins
Since the beginning, plants and animals have deployed various mechanisms to fight pathogens. Proteins have always played an important part in this armoury, and a broad variety of defensin proteins have become part of the ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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What genes help blossoms last longer?
Some cut flowers and potted plants are better than others at fending off the aging process, known as senescence. To help tomorrow's blooms stay fresh longer, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Cai-Zhong ...
May 24, 2010 |
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Bees that nest in petals
A rare species of solitary bees found in the Middle East, Osima avoseta, constructs its nests from petals, creating chambers of pink, yellow, blue, and purple for its larvae. The colorful nests moist, secure ...
May 04, 2010 |
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'Different forms of flowers' continues to fascinate
Although Charles Darwin is most well-known both for his book "On the Origin of Species" and his theories on natural selection, he once stated, "I do not think anything in my scientific life has given me so much satisfaction ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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