A recipe for creating a new plant from a single differentiated cell
Research probing the secret of how some single plant cells can regenerate into whole plants will benefit from a new culture protocol developed by RIKEN scientists.
Research probing the secret of how some single plant cells can regenerate into whole plants will benefit from a new culture protocol developed by RIKEN scientists.
Plants & Animals
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Photosynthesis is the means by which plants, algae, and cyanobacteria extract their "food" in the form of energy-rich biomolecules from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. It is a complex process, from which researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2022
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Over 34 million people in the U.S. don't have enough food. More diverse and adaptable crops are needed to address challenges in food production made worse by climate change. Small, sweet berries called groundcherries may ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2022
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A new study shows that we can create and/or select plants that can better recover from drought without affecting the size of the plant or seed yield by genetically modifying their lignin chemistry. These results could be ...
Biochemistry
Sep 21, 2022
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Cold stress at the booting stage leads to lower seed setting rate and seriously threatens the production and quality of rice.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 5, 2022
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Researchers led by Prof. Zhang Jinsong from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), devoted to the studies of ethylene signaling pathway and its regulation in rice, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 29, 2022
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Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring is an important post-translational modification, which tethers non-transmembrane proteins to the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane (PM). It participates in many biological processes ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2022
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Calcium is a very special nutrient. In the cells of most living beings calcium ions function as so-called second messengers to transmit important signals. The same applies equally to animal, plant and fungal cells. Through ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2022
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To carry out their functions in the cell, many proteins require the chemical properties of bound metals such as copper. If this nutrient is in short supply, plants respond by enhancing its uptake and by replacing some copper-utilizing ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 4, 2022
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Genomes contain regions between protein-coding genes that produce lengthy RNA molecules that never give rise to a protein. These long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) are thought to have important functions, such as ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2022
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