Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have discovered a hormone-like peptide in plants that helps increase their tolerance to excessive salt. Published in the Proceedings of the National ...
Biotechnology
May 14, 2018
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Controlling water loss is an important ability for modern land plants as it helps them thrive in changing environments. New research from the University of Bristol, published today in the journal Current Biology, shows that ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a hormone acting like molecular glue could hold a key to bolstering plant immune systems and understanding how plants cope with environmental stress.
Biochemistry
Oct 6, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New functions of the plant hormone strigolactone, discovered by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center and University of Toronto, have provided first-ever clues on the germination mechanism for the ...
Biochemistry
Oct 4, 2010
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It's a corn plant only a geneticist could love, but an MU researcher has found a way to help scientists love it.
Biotechnology
Mar 7, 2011
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Shoppers hoping their browny-green capsicums will eventually ripen into those beautiful pillar box red ones will always be disappointed. University of Adelaide researchers have shed new light on why capsicums picked green ...
Biotechnology
Dec 13, 2013
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Like the plot of a mystery novel, research has found a twist in the way plants cannibalize their own cells to survive under stress.
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2021
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Chemical ripeners, also known as growth regulators, are widely used in Brazil's sugarcane industry to increase early sucrose content relative to total mass and to inhibit plant growth in order to prolong harvesting and milling, ...
Biotechnology
Jun 9, 2017
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That healthy salad you ate for lunch contains fatty acids—surprised? Fatty acids, lipids, and fats in our food may sound undesirable, but they are foundational to human life and to the plants we consume. Their interaction ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 13, 2022
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Male fish are taking longer to be "feminized" by chemical contaminants that act as hormone disrupters in Colorado's Boulder Creek following the upgrade of a wastewater treatment plant in Boulder in 2008, according to a new ...
Ecology
Jun 21, 2010
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