Black poplar leaves infected by fungi are especially susceptible to attack by gypsy moth caterpillars. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, has now further investigated this observation. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2020
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Harvesting rice from the same field, without planting new rice plants? A discovery may bring this scenario closer. Leiden scientists have discovered a gene that allows annual plants to grow after flowering, instead of dying. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2020
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Five years ago, researchers from the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) led by the CSIC Research Professor Paloma Mas made the breakthrough discovery that the circadian clocks in the growing tip of the plant ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 13, 2020
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Plants are irreplaceable in the food chain, providing food and oxygen for essentially all organisms, and they regulate the climate of the planet. Proteins play a key role in controlling all aspects of life, including plants. ...
Biotechnology
Mar 12, 2020
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Astronauts in space live on processed, pre-packaged space rations such as fruits, nuts, chocolate, shrimp cocktails, peanut butter, chicken, and beef to name a few. These have often been sterilized by heating, freeze drying, ...
Space Exploration
Mar 6, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has successfully tested a new strategy for identifying genetic resources critical for the ongoing battle against plant pathogens such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses that ...
Ecology
Feb 19, 2020
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Australia's first plant foods—eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago—have been discovered in Arnhem Land.
Archaeology
Feb 17, 2020
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Bees are an important factor for our environment and our sustenance. Without insect pollination, many plant species—including various crops—cannot reproduce. "Bee mortality therefore affects food supply for human beings," ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2020
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New research from UC Riverside identifies a protein that controls plant growth— good news for an era in which crops can get crushed by climate change.
Biotechnology
Jan 13, 2020
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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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