Research finds unprecedented levels of insects damaging plants
Insects today are causing unprecedented levels of damage to plants, even as insect numbers decline, according to new research led by University of Wyoming scientists.
Insects today are causing unprecedented levels of damage to plants, even as insect numbers decline, according to new research led by University of Wyoming scientists.
Plants & Animals
Oct 10, 2022
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In fossil leaves, puzzling structures are often visible under the microscope. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now been able to show for the first time that they originate from calcium oxalate crystals. On the one ...
Evolution
Oct 7, 2022
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When it comes to adding carbon to the soil, all cover crops don't perform equally, according to a team of researchers whose new study revealed the disparity for the first time.
Ecology
Sep 22, 2022
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The clumps of discarded hair on the salon floor could one day help to grow your lunchtime salad, thanks to scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), who have created the growth medium used ...
Biochemistry
Sep 21, 2022
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There's a freezer door in the mountainside outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. Tom Douglas opens it and we step inside, breathing in cold air and musky dust as we start to walk back through time.
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2022
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A new study led by Texas A&M AgriLife researchers has revealed some resistance to zebra chip disease among certain wild species of potato.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 14, 2022
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Hidden beneath the delicate, red skin and juicy flesh of a tomato is a wealth of nutrients and genetic makeup. With recent research on the first genome of a species in the tomatillo tribe (part of the tomato family), we now ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 31, 2022
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There is an entire aqueous universe hidden within the tiny pores of many natural and engineered materials. Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has shown that when such materials ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 25, 2022
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In humans, and many other species, both genes inherited from the mother and from the father influence how embryos develop. In the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, however, the mother has total control, as researchers from ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2022
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More than 112 years ago, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch industrialized a process that could produce ammonia from nitrogen readily available in the air, creating commercially viable chemical fertilizer capable of improving crop ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 22, 2022
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