Scientists from Finland and Germany used bacteria as an example to study how communities consisting of several species respond to disturbances in their laboratory environment. Similar kinds of perturbations can occur in the ...
Ecology
Aug 10, 2020
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Scientists have discovered that calcium plays a significant role in enhancing the resistance of potato plants to bacterial wilt. This disease causes worldwide losses of potatoes costing $19 billion per year. The findings ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 1, 2024
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More than 70 percent of researchers failed to reproduce another scientist's experiment, according to a survey conducted by Nature in 2016. If scientists can't reproduce each other's work, important discoveries may never leave ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 19, 2019
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Driven by consumer demand for local leafy green vegetables, growers in Taiwan are increasingly interested in producing organic and conventional lettuce in high tunnels. In subtropical regions, growing this cool-season leafy ...
Biotechnology
Jan 13, 2016
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Every time we fill our gas tank, fire up the furnace, ride in an airplane, or use electricity generated by oil, coal, or natural gas, we are contributing to climate change worldwide.
Environment
Feb 22, 2019
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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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Americans consume an enormous amount of media daily via television, radio, phone and computer. As you read this article on the Internet, perhaps while checking the text messages on your smartphone or listening to satellite ...
Internet
Oct 29, 2013
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Researchers from the University of Liverpool collaborating with University College London, Banfield Pet Hospitals and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition have developed the first evidence-based growth standards chart for ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2017
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Microbial populations may be small but they are surprisingly complex, making interactions with their surrounding environment difficult to study. But now, researchers from Japan have discovered that machine learning can provide ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 1, 2022
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the staple food for more than half of the world's population. Based on mathematical modeling, worldwide cereal production is estimated to have a loss of 6%–7% yield per 1°C increase in seasonal ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 30, 2024
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