The C4 cycle supercharges photosynthesis and evolved independently more than 62 times. Using constraint-based modeling, researchers successfully investigated which factors contributed to the evolution of the C4 trait. The ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2019
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As climate changes, plants in North America, much of Eurasia, and parts of central and South America will consume more water than they do now, leading to less water for people, according to a new study in the journal Nature ...
Environment
Nov 5, 2019
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With climate change, plants of the future will consume more water than in the present day, leading to less water available for people living in North America and Eurasia, according to a Dartmouth-led study in Nature Geoscience. ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2019
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he next time a river overflows its banks, don't just blame the rain clouds. Earth system scientists from the University of California, Irvine have identified another culprit: leafy plants.
Environment
Oct 21, 2019
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A secret weapon used by the killer rice blast fungus to infect host plants has been discovered in new research.
Biotechnology
Oct 16, 2019
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Most plants have plenty of enemies, from insects and other grazing creatures to various diseases, droughts and many other stressors.
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2019
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Neither living nor non-living, viruses are generally strange. Among viruses, multipartite viruses are among the most peculiar—their genome is not packed into many particles rather than one. Multipartite viruses primarily ...
General Physics
Oct 2, 2019
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Given the choice between ice cream and vegetables, for many people it'll be the ice cream. But sometimes it depends on the situation. If you'd eaten ice cream every day for a week, you might prefer the salad. Human preferences ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2019
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) biologists have taken a closer look at the subcellular distribution of proteins and metabolic intermediates in a model plant. The results of the study provide new insights into the dynamics ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 13, 2019
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A new study in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry takes a harder look at the effects a common anti-inflammatory medication and its degradation products have on amphibians. There have been many studies that review the ...
Ecology
Aug 12, 2019
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