An often-overlooked component of natural and human-driven disasters is their potential to affect plant health and thus food security at domestic and international scales. Most disasters have indirect effects on plant health ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2024
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Using newly generated "optogenetic" tobacco plants, research teams from the University of Würzburg's Departments of Plant Physiology and Neurophysiology have investigated how plants process external signals.
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2024
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A recent study has unveiled the sophisticated methods pathogens use to weaken plant defenses. It shows how a pathogen's effector protein targets the chloroplast protein StFC-II, increasing its levels in chloroplasts and reducing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2024
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Food security is shaping up as one of the biggest challenges we face globally. In some places, access to food has steadily deteriorated in recent years, due to wars, inflation and climate-driven extreme weather. The cost ...
Biotechnology
Aug 14, 2024
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Unusually warm waters off the coast of Sicily helped spawn a "waterspout" that sank a superyacht earlier this week, leaving several people dead or missing.
Environment
Aug 22, 2024
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A research team sequenced and analyzed the complete chloroplast genomes of C. oleifera and C. meiocarpa, uncovering significant differences that clarified their phylogenetic relationship. This study developed 17 chloroplast ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 19, 2024
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Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ocean of corn. The term ...
Agriculture
Aug 28, 2024
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