Search results for Plant Flower

Molecular & Computational biology Apr 10, 2023

Rooting out how plants control nitrogen use

Insights into gene and protein control systems that regulate the use of nitrogen by plant roots could help develop crops that require less nitrogenous fertilizers to produce acceptable yields. Plant biochemist Soichi Kojima ...

Plants & Animals Apr 6, 2023

Testing of smartphone apps that identify plants shows most are not very good

A trio of botanists, two from the University of Galway's School of Natural Science and the third from the University of Leeds' School of Geography, has found via testing that most smartphone apps that identify plants are ...

Plants & Animals Apr 5, 2023

Understanding inflorescence architecture in woodland strawberry provides tools for crop improvement

Flowers in plants are typically arranged into branched clusters called inflorescences. As flowers produce the seeds and the fruits, inflorescence architecture—the level of branching as well as the final numbers of flowers ...

Evolution Mar 31, 2023

Ants took over the world by following flowering plants out of prehistoric forests, says study

Ants are pretty much everywhere. There are more than 14,000 different species, spread over every continent except Antarctica, and researchers have estimated that there are more than four quadrillion individual ants on Earth—that's ...

Plants & Animals Mar 27, 2023

Earth's first plants likely to have been branched, study finds

A new discovery by scientists at the University of Bristol changes ideas about the origin of branching in plants.

Plants & Animals Mar 23, 2023

Deceptive daisy's ability to create fake flies explained

A male fly approaches a flower, lands on top of what he thinks is a female fly, and jiggles around. He's trying to mate, but it isn't quite working. He has another go. Eventually he gives up and buzzes off, unsuccessful. ...

Evolution Mar 16, 2023

Bigger flowers, greater rewards: Plants adapt to climate disruptions to lure pollinators

There's been a well-documented shift toward earlier springtime flowering in many plants as the world warms. The trend alarms biologists because it has the potential to disrupt carefully choreographed interactions between ...

Ecology Mar 14, 2023

Thousands of native plants are unphotographed, and citizen scientists can help fill the gaps

Scientists have documented plant species for centuries to help us understand and protect the incredible diversity of flora in our world. But according to new research, many have never actually been photographed in their natural ...

Plants & Animals Mar 8, 2023

Monitoring the birds and the bees: eDNA metabarcoding of flowers detects plant–animal interactions

Curtin researchers have uncovered new evidence of western pygmy possums interacting with native flowers, providing the first eDNA study to simultaneously detect mammal, insect and bird DNA on flowers.

Bio & Medicine Feb 20, 2023

Researchers develop first nanotube sensors capable of detecting and distinguishing gibberellin plant hormones

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise ...

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