The key to growing coffee plants that can better resist climate change in the decades to come may lie in the ancient past.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 15, 2024
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Climate change, extreme weather events, unprecedented records in temperatures, and higher, acidic oceans make it difficult to predict the long-term fate of modern crop varieties.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 25, 2024
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A team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has succeeded for the first time in identifying the odorants responsible for the characteristic lychee note of ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 11, 2024
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In a recent breakthrough, DNA sequencing technology has uncovered the culprit behind cassava witches' broom disease: the fungus genus Ceratobasidium. The cutting-edge nanopore technology used for this discovery was first ...
Biotechnology
Feb 5, 2024
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A new discovery by Tel Aviv University has succeeded in cultivating and characterizing tomato varieties with higher water use efficiency without compromising yield. The researchers, employing CRISPR genetic editing technology, ...
Biotechnology
Jan 30, 2024
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Plants produce a range of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds that influence their interactions with the world around them. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have investigated ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2024
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Scientists at U.S. the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and The Ohio State University (OSU) have been working to investigate how tomatoes may be imparting health benefits in a recently published ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 18, 2024
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Fruit development encompasses a series of physical, biochemical, and physiological shifts influenced by both genetic programming and environmental factors. The growth patterns of fruits like grapes are generally consistent ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 15, 2023
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Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet's remaining wilderness, new research shows.
Ecology
Oct 19, 2023
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The famously talented winemakers of Mirdita, high in the mountains of northern Albania, have never been so worried.
Agriculture
Oct 15, 2023
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