Essential oils, also known as ethereal oils, are volatile, aromatic compounds derived from plants. Found in only about 10% of the plant kingdom, these oils are present in secretory structures such as glands, ducts, cavities, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 11, 2024
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Plants don't need noses to smell. The ability is in their genes. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered the first steps of how information from odor molecules changes gene expression in plants. Manipulating ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2019
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UC researchers are pioneering the use of treated sewage to restore native plants on Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula.
Ecology
May 17, 2024
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Scientists at the Valencian Institute of Agrarian Research (IVIA, Spain) have created a machine that detects and separates rotten oranges, another that classifies mandarin segments according to their quality and another that ...
Other
Oct 11, 2011
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Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat for public health, and the use of antimicrobials in livestock feed has been a major contributing factor in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 17, 2024
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A research team at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology has developed a novel screening method to identify antimicrobial properties of volatile substances. With this assay, they tested the vapour-phase-mediated activity ...
Biochemistry
Mar 9, 2018
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Supplementing the feed of high-producing dairy cows with the botanical extract capsicum oleoresin, obtained from chili peppers, or a combination of that extract and clove oil resulted in the animals using feed energy more ...
Veterinary medicine
Feb 14, 2024
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It may sound pretty harmless, but methane emissions from cows are a large problem for the climate. When ruminants digest their feed, methane is formed as a natural by-product of the microbial process in the rumen, and since ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2016
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A research team at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and the KU Leuven Department of Biology showed that, contrary to generally held belief, most components of essential oils could meet the criteria set for drug candidates. ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 21, 2020
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Huanglongbing is considered the most destructive citrus disease in the world, present in 17 percent of orange trees in São Paulo State, Brazil. A new strategy for combating the vector of the bacterium that causes huanglongbing, ...
Ecology
Oct 6, 2016
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