After a long pandemic winter, people are eager to welcome the first cheerful blooms of spring. Lucky for them, many flowers really are popping open earlier in the year.
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2021
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An international team of scientists with Fridgeir GrÃmsson from the University of Vienna has found a previously unknown fossil fly species in old lake sediments of the Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2021
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On hot summer days, the lucky ones among us can rely on air conditioning, fans or maybe even a swim to cope with high temperatures.
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2021
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Lipids are the building blocks of the cell membrane. In addition to their structural function, some lipids also play a regulatory role and decisively influence cell growth. This has been investigated in a new study by scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2021
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Honeybee historians might seem like a flight of fancy but these tiny pollinators have been helping researchers from the National Botanic Garden of Wales track how the UK's fields, hedgerows, wild spaces and gardens have changed ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2021
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The yield and quality of many crops benefit from pollination, but it isn't just honey bees that do this work: bumble bees also have a role. However, placing honey bee or bumble bee colonies next to the field does not guarantee ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2020
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Plant biology researchers at the University of Illinois and computer scientists at the University of California Irvine have developed a new method of fossil pollen identification through the combination of super-resolution ...
Ecology
Oct 26, 2020
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From pollen forecasting, honey analysis and climate-related changes in plant-pollinator interactions, analyzing pollen plays an important role in many areas of research. Microscopy is still the gold standard, but it is very ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2020
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New insight on how an enzyme ensures the correct growth of pollen tubes in flowering plants has been published today in the open-access journal eLife.
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2020
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A group of researchers from four countries has worked out exactly how a pollen tube, the plant cell that emerges from a grain of pollen, grows up to a thousand-fold to reach an ovule deep inside the flower. The key to this ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 12, 2020
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