A Cornell study describes a breakthrough in the quest to improve photosynthesis in certain crops, a step toward adapting plants to rapid climate changes and increasing yields to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2050.
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2022
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Life on Earth runs in 24-hour cycles. From tiny bacteria to human beings, organisms adapt to alterations of day and night. External factors, such as changes in light and temperature, are needed to entrain the clock. Many ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2022
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Guanidine is one of the most nitrogen-rich compounds. It could be a valuable source of organic nitrogen, but only very few organisms can access it. However, certain bacteria manage to obtain nitrogen from guanidine. A Konstanz-based ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 9, 2022
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Genes jumping from microbes to green algae hundreds of millions of years ago might have driven the evolution of land plants, researchers report March 1 in the journal Molecular Plant. Their analysis reveals that hundreds ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 1, 2022
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Harmful algal blooms formed by fast-growing, ephemeral macroalgae have expanded worldwide. Green tides formed by Ulva prolifera in the Yellow Sea of China have become a notable marine ecological problem.
Ecology
Feb 15, 2022
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A team of researchers led by Penn State scientists has identified the location of changes in the photosynthetic apparatus of some cyanobacteria—formerly known as "blue-green algae"—that allow the organisms to grow using ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2021
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Barges carrying mounds of coal toward St. Louis passed by Starved Rock at a snail's pace, inching past yellow-orange trees and sandstone canyons. A bald eagle hovered above a path leading hikers toward Lover's Leap. Near ...
Ecology
Nov 19, 2021
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A new way to detect early signs of harmful blue-green algae, which bloom in lakes, rivers and reservoirs around the world, has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham together with researchers at the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 19, 2021
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Leading a double life in water and on land, frogs have many breathing techniques—through the gills, lungs, and skin—over the course of their lifetime. Now German scientists have developed another method that allows tadpoles ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 13, 2021
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Certain invasive, non-native species can disrupt lakes to the point of rapid ecosystem collapse, contaminating water for drinking, aquaculture and recreation, a new study has found.
Ecology
Oct 7, 2021
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