Success with improving a model plant's response to harsh conditions is leading plant molecular researchers to move to food crops including wheat, barley, rice and chickpeas.
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2019
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A team of researchers at the University of Georgia has found a way to identify gene regulatory elements that could help produce "designer" plants and lead to improvements in food crops at a critical time. They published their ...
Biotechnology
Nov 18, 2019
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Decades after farmland was abandoned, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover, according to new University of Minnesota research.
Ecology
Nov 18, 2019
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The long-necked, big bodied sauropod dinosaurs comprise some of the largest terrestrial vertebrates to walk the earth. These behemoths were herbivores that survived solely on plant material. There has been long speculation ...
Archaeology
Nov 8, 2019
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Quinoa is a healthy food many know and love. As its popularity grows, more farmers are interested in planting it. However, the plant doesn't do well in high temperatures, so plant breeders are trying to help.
Biotechnology
Nov 4, 2019
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The horizontal drilling method called hydraulic fracturing helps the United States produce close to 4 billion barrels of oil and natural gas per year, rocketing the U.S. to the top of oil-producing nations in the world.
Environment
Oct 31, 2019
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More than 150 years ago, Charles Darwin's fascination with genetics and domestication catapulted the scientific world into new territory as scientists started to ask: How did a species evolve to be this way?
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2019
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Despite their important ecological role as decomposers, termites are often overlooked in research. Evolutionary biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have constructed a new ...
Evolution
Oct 17, 2019
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Australian research could help breeders develop more drought-resilient crops that can produce more food and more profit with less water.
Biotechnology
Oct 16, 2019
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You may mock the national anthem by singing "Our land abounds in nature strips" but what you might not know is how true that is. In Melbourne, for example, more than a third of all public green space is nature strips. (That ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 16, 2019
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