ASPB is pleased to announce the publication in The Plant Cell of important research that explores the cause of seed abortion and the role of the enzyme RNA Pol IV to understand how seed development works.
Ecology
May 7, 2019
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How healthy a plant matures depends on how well it grows during its early life stages, which is not a surprise to anyone who has raised children.
Ecology
May 19, 2017
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Development aid reached a new peak of 142.6 billion USD, according to recent data from the OECD.
Social Sciences
May 3, 2017
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Plants cannot move to find new places to live in, but they can actively direct their seeds to new suitable places for plant development. This 'directed dispersal' had previously been shown only for plants with seeds that ...
Ecology
Oct 14, 2016
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Inside every seed is the embryo of a plant, and in most cases also a storage of food needed to power initial growth of the young seedling. A seed consists mainly of carbohydrates and these have to be is transported from the ...
Biotechnology
Mar 20, 2015
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Researchers from Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, BGI, University of Copenhagen and other institutes have successfully cracked the genome of high oil content crop sesame, providing ...
Biotechnology
Mar 7, 2014
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The welcome sight of snowdrops and daffodils coming into flower in the late winter herald the promise of spring warmth just around the corner. These plants are adapted to flower early in the year to take advantage of the ...
Ecology
May 24, 2013
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The plant hormones known as gibberellins (GAs) are growth promoters that are involved in a wide range of processes from seed germination to flower development. The details of the biosynthesis of GAs, however, have yet to ...
Biotechnology
May 2, 2013
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Double flowers—though beautiful—are mutants. The genetic interruption that causes that mutation previously helped scientists pinpoint the genes for normal development of flower sexual organs in Arabidopsis thaliana. Now ...
Evolution
Sep 4, 2012
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Researchers at Oregon State University have definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon, where larval growth had declined to a ...
Environment
Apr 11, 2012
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