Food mechanics recipe to serve up healthy food that lasts
QUT researchers are working to design faster, cheaper, and better ways to store food.
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How weather affects crawfish harvests
The life cycle of a crawfish can be fairly straight forward. In the summer months, crawfish reproduce in underground mud burrows with a plug of mud on top of the burrow to protect them from predators. In late summer and early ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2020
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A prion-related protein senses warmer temperature in plants
Many plants and trees flower in the spring when it gets warmer. How plants sense Scientists from the UK, France, Korea and Germany focused on a protein called EARLY FLOWERING3 (ELF3). ELF3 is a key part of the circadian clock ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2020
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How maths modelling helps efforts to eradicate banana bunchy top virus
Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) is an aphid-transmitted banana disease that has been in Australia since 1913 and has been contained by biosecurity agencies to southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales. Badly affected ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 10, 2020
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Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions
The soil beneath our feet is alive with electrical signals being sent from one plant to another, according to research in which a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) distinguished professor emeritus in the Department ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2020
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How plants' vascular cells turn into holes
Theoretical biologists have solved a unique puzzle in the structure of plants' vascular tissue. Two mutations that had opposite effects appear to lead to the same result. Professor of Computational Developmental Biology Kirsten ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 16, 2020
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When do plants help or hinder each other?
When plants grow close together, each individual plant has less chance of doing well—at least, that was the accepted wisdom in environmental research. Now Dr. Ruichang Zhang and Professor Katja Tielbörger from the Institute ...
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2020
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How to boost plant biomass: Biologists uncover molecular link between nutrient availability, growth
Plant scientists have long known that crop yield is proportional to the dose of nitrogen fertilizer, but the increased use of fertilizers is costly and harmful to the environment. Until now, the underlying mechanisms by which ...
Biotechnology
May 11, 2020
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Plant viruses could be used to prevent and treat human autoimmune diseases
Researchers have taken positive steps towards using plant virus-based particles for the treatment of human autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
Bio & Medicine
May 7, 2020
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Mutation reduces energy waste in plants
To this end, the team identified several thousand proteins, determined their respective amounts in mutant and reference lines and combined the findings with measurements of photosynthetic performance. Their findings were ...
Plants & Animals
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