Rivers, lakes and oceans worldwide are home to trillions of pieces of plastic pollution that are smaller than five millimeters in length, known as microplastics, and their size allows them to easily enter humans and animals. ...
Environment
May 15, 2023
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Seeds only germinate when a series of internal and environmental needs are met. Otherwise, they get stuck in a state of dormancy. Researchers from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) led by Paula Duque just revealed ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 26, 2023
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Flowers in plants are typically arranged into branched clusters called inflorescences. As flowers produce the seeds and the fruits, inflorescence architecture—the level of branching as well as the final numbers of flowers ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2023
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Fungicide application, while helpful in controlling plant diseases, has complicated limitations that may cost growers both peace of mind and quantity of yield. Plant pathogens which would otherwise be killed off by fungicides ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 24, 2023
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Rice is one of the most important crops in the world and constitutes the primary food source for over half of Earth's population. Protecting rice plantations from disease is therefore an essential endeavor in modern agriculture. ...
Biotechnology
Mar 8, 2023
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While farming continues to drive deforestation around the world, 60% of the destruction of Earth's large, intact forests is caused by other forces. In particular, our research shows that more than one-third of this destruction ...
Environment
Feb 9, 2023
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How do plants defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms? This is a complex puzzle, of which a team of biologists from the University of Amsterdam has solved a new piece. The team, led by Harrold van den Burg, discovered ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2023
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A new CABI-led review published in the journal Microbiology Australia highlights how CABI has spent over 100 years identifying and combatting emerging fungal diseases of plants in response to the impacts of climate change.
Ecology
Jan 12, 2023
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Physiological or clonal integration is a key ecological benefit where stolon or rhizome connections between ramets allow for translocation of resources from source-sites to sink-sites (in patchy or heterogeneous environments) ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 27, 2022
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In plants, the cells that form the internal structure of leaves start out as tightly compacted spheres in the early stages of leaf development. As the leaf develops and expands, these cells take on new shapes and loosen up. ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2022
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