News tagged with grass species
Two-timing and hybrids: Researchers look back on 100 million years of evolution
For about 100 million years, grass smut fungi have been breeding in a three-gender system. This was discovered by Dr. Ronny Kellner and professor Dr. Dominik Begerow of the RUB Geobotany Laboratory in cooperation with colleagues ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Genome-scale network of rice genes to speed the development of biofuel crops
The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed by an international team of researches that includes scientists with the U.S. Department ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Plant defences - the mystery deepens
New research has brought us a step closer to untangling the complex reasons why certain plant species triumph over others.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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SDSU cautions producers to watch for scab in wheat seed
Unusually wet conditions in many parts of South Dakota during the wheat growing season in 2011 have resulted in visible scab damage in at least half of the winter wheat samples tested thus far at South Dakota State University.
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Warming climate could give exotic grasses edge over natives
California’s native grasses, already under pressure from invasive exotic grasses, are likely to be pushed aside even more as the climate warms, according to a new analysis from the University of California, ...
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Mediterranean Sea invaded by alien species
More than 900 new alien species have been encountered in the coastal environments of the eastern Mediterranean Sea in recent decades, including the poisonous pufferfish. The invasion of alien species has had ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Pollen also appears outside flowering season
"There is of course a very close relationship between the moment at which pollen is released by plants and the data gathered by the traps used to measure these grains, but this is not always the case", Rafael Tormo, a botanist ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Turtle populations affected by climate, habitat loss and overexploitation
Fact: The sex of some species of turtles is determined by the temperature of the nest: warm nests produce females, cooler nests, males. And although turtles have been on the planet for about 220 million years, ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Miscanthus has a fighting chance against weeds
University of Illinois research reports that several herbicides used on corn also have good selectivity to Miscanthus x giganteus (Giant Miscanthus), a potential bioenergy feedstock.
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Scientists offer new knowledge on 're-discovered' switchgrass moth
(PhysOrg.com) -- South Dakota State University scientists and their colleagues elsewhere are adding to what is known about an insect "re-discovered" in switchgrass research plots at SDSU.
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Estimating ethanol yields from CRP croplands
The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Now a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists ...
Mar 19, 2010 |
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NASA Heads Out to Sea
NASA scientists Maury Estes and Mohammad Al-Hamdan have been seafaring in the Gulf of Mexico, and one of them grew a bit green around the gills. It's not surprising that a space agency scientist might have ...
Aug 24, 2009 |
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