A team of researchers affiliated with multiple entities in the U.S. and the U.K. has found that the number of cactus species at risk of extinction is likely to increase this century as a result of climate change. In their ...
As a young child spending time on her grandparents' rice farm in the Philippines, Shelley Lumba grew up understanding the benefits of the Green Revolution—the period in the 1950s and 60s when many technological advances ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2022
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When plant geneticists find a gene that improves crop yields, they want to try to insert that same change into other crops. But Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor and HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman cautions that ...
Biotechnology
Mar 28, 2022
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Researchers led by Prof. Zhou Yihua from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently reported an identification of unprecedented xylan nanocompartments at the ...
Biotechnology
Mar 23, 2022
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New research has identified more than 1,000 edible plants that could address vitamin B deficiencies for thousands of people.
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2022
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New research suggests that ancient trees possess far more than an awe-inspiring presence and a suite of ecological services to forests—they also sustain the entire population of trees' ability to adapt to a rapidly changing ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2022
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Researchers from Lancaster University working to improve the sustainable productivity of key crops in sub-Saharan Africa have discovered an imperfection in a critical enzyme within cowpea—and believe this imperfection is ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 20, 2022
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Colloidal crystals and glasses are tunable, iridescent, nonfading and nontoxic materials that can be used to develop structural colors. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Jong Bin Kim, and a team of researchers ...
Crop improvement often involves the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another to produce a valuable trait. Some major examples of crops with these so-called "transgenes" include disease-resistant cotton and ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2021
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Plants are under attack by a variety of insect species. They have defense mechanisms to deal with this, including chemicals or sturdier leaves. But it's now been found that when wild black mustard plants defend themselves ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2021
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