News tagged with plant species
Related topics: plants , species , climate change , flowering plants , invasive species
Succulent plants waited for cool, dry Earth to make their mark
The cactus, stalwart of the desert, has quite a story to tell about the evolution of plant communities found the world over.
May 03, 2011 |
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Antimalarial trees in East Africa threatened with extinction
Research released in anticipation of World Malaria Day finds that plants in East Africa with promising antimalarial qualities -- ones that have treated malaria symptoms in the region's communities for hundreds of years -- ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Researchers pinpoint key events in ancient plant evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants.
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Are invasive plants a threat to native biodiversity? It depends on the spatial scale
The phrase "invasive plant species" typically evokes negative images such as broad swaths of kudzu smothered trees along the highway or purple loosestrife taking over wetlands and clogging waterways—and ...
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Scientists call for more robust measures to identify and protect endangered species
Conservationists may need to change their approach to protecting animals and plants from extinction if they are to successfully shield key species and habitats from the effects of global climate change, according to a new ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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'Wicked Weed of the West' waning with effect of weevils, other nontoxic remedies
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not often that plants are described as diabolical, but spotted knapweed has that rare distinction. A 2004 issue of Smithsonian magazine, for instance, dubbed it the "wicked weed of the ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Missouri Botanical Garden makes rare discovery of plant genus
The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) has played a significant role in identifying a new genus, Yasunia, with two confirmed species from Ecuador and Peru, Y. quadrata and Y. sessiliflora.
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Antarctic flowering plants warm to climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first issue of a new journal in the prestigious Nature series, Nature Climate Change (issue 1; April 2011) highlights how one plant species in the Antarctic appears to be taking advant ...
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Finding the missing pieces
(PhysOrg.com) -- Missing pieces in the biodiversity puzzle make it impossible to accurately predict the effects of climate change on most plant species in the Amazon and other tropical areas, according to ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Plant buffers can slow runoff of veterinary antibiotics
Field tests by University of Missouri scientists have backed up laboratory research indicating that buffer strips of grass and other plants can reduce the amount of herbicide and veterinary antibiotics in surface runoff from ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Ecologists use 70-year-old pressed plants to chart city's vanishing native flora
More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in Indianapolis, USA have used 70 year-old dried ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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New plant species gives insights into evolution
A new University of Florida study shows when two flowering plants are crossed to produce a new hybrid, the new species' genes are reset, allowing for greater genetic variation.
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Plasticity of plants helps them adapt to climate change
The study, which has been published in Trends in Plant Science, provides an overview of plants' molecular and genetic mechanisms, which is important for ecologists, physiologists and molecular biologists, since it covers ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Philippines to fight invading species
Like some bad science-fiction movie, Philippine fishermen are encountering strange alien creatures: tough, speckled fish with sharp spines that tear and rip their nets.
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Enzymes from garden compost could favour bioethanol production
Today, bioethanol is primarily made from glucose. If xylose -- which is found in straw, willow and other fast-growing plant species -- could also be used efficiently, then ethanol production could increase significantly. ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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