Drowning tomatoes for science

I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the tomatoes don't look good. Half of the plants are ...

How friendly fungi is helping rice thrive

Researchers from The University of Western Australia, in collaboration with Chinese scientists, have uncovered a fascinating aspect of plant-microbe interactions, revealing how a specific leaf fungus enhances rice disease ...

A review of the Epichloë festucae antifungal protein Efe-AfpA

A research team has reviewed the mechanisms behind endophyte-mediated disease resistance in strong creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra subsp. rubra) and identified the antifungal protein Efe-AfpA produced by Epichloë festucae ...

New hemp standards for research and industry

Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) research and commercial production has recently experienced a global revival motivated by passage of laws reversing long-standing prohibitions and by development in markets.

Getting to the root of a plant's success

Plants are powerful factories—they can turn basic ingredients like carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight into oxygen, sugars, and plant mass. But plants don't do all of this work on their own.

Researchers develop AI-assisted tomato plant monitoring system

Real-time monitoring of tomato plants in plant factories is necessary to identify and classify diseases at the early stages to prevent possible outbreaks. The proposed DeepD381v4plus network exhibits higher class-wise accuracy, ...

Researchers uncover the secrets of 'plant puberty'

Researchers have identified the genetic changes linked to why plants go through a developmental change similar to "puberty" at different rates, a discovery that could lead to better crop nutrition.

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