Every day, plants around the world perform an invisible miracle. They take carbon dioxide from the air and, with the help of sunlight, turn it into countless chemicals essential to both plants and humans.
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2022
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For the first time, Umeå researchers have, with the help of cryogenic electron microscopy, succeeded in producing a high-resolution image of photosystem II—the central complex of photosynthesis—of the model plant Arabidopsis. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 17, 2021
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We all have an internal clock but what makes us tick? Scientists at the Earlham Institute and IBM Research have developed new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to understand how gene expression ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 10, 2021
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What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb with the botanical name Arabidopsis thaliana serves them as a model organism from which knowledge can be gained for other plants. It ...
Evolution
Jul 14, 2021
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In some environments there is no way for a seed to know for sure when the best time to germinate is.
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2021
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In today's plants, photorespiration dissipates some of the energy produced by photosynthesis and releases CO2. It begins when the enzyme RuBisCO acts on oxygen instead of carbon dioxide and creates toxic side-products requiring ...
Biotechnology
May 18, 2021
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The first frost of autumn may be grim for gardeners but the latest evidence reveals it is a profound event in the life of plants.
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2021
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Many plants and trees flower in the spring when it gets warmer. How plants sense Scientists from the UK, France, Korea and Germany focused on a protein called EARLY FLOWERING3 (ELF3). ELF3 is a key part of the circadian clock ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2020
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To this end, the team identified several thousand proteins, determined their respective amounts in mutant and reference lines and combined the findings with measurements of photosynthetic performance. Their findings were ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2020
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) biologists have taken a closer look at the subcellular distribution of proteins and metabolic intermediates in a model plant. The results of the study provide new insights into the dynamics ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 13, 2019
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