Not everyone loves wheat—so why not remove the bad bits?
Wheat is everywhere. It's in bread, pasta, pastries, biscuits, pizza, batter, cereals, soups, sauces, instant drinks, salad dressing, processed meats and sweets, to name but a few.
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Molecular conductors help plants respond to drought
We can tell when plants need water: their leaves droop and they start to look dry. But what's happening on a molecular level?
Mutant plants reveal temperature sensor
As we push the limits of agriculture to feed more people in a warmer world, we do not understand how plants sense temperature.
Researchers modify yeast to show how plants respond to a key hormone
You read that right. Plants have hormones.
A breakthrough in genetic modification of grains
Although the commercialization of transgenic, or "genetically modified", plants has stirred widespread controversy, much research remains focused on improving techniques to create such plants. As people familiar with the ...
Helpers for energy acquisition from plants
Research into plant cells is far from complete. Scientists under the biochemist Professor Peter Dörmann at Universität Bonn have now succeeded in describing the function of chloroplasts in more detail. These are plant and ...
New tool enables researchers to rapidly manipulate protein levels in mammalian cells
A research team headed by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) has developed a tool that allows scientists to quickly manipulate levels of two proteins in the same cell. They say the method, ...
Genetic comparisons provide insight into the evolution of a crucial filament protein in animals, plants and bacteria
Divergent evolutionary pathways in different domains of life have resulted in distinct filament systems that underlie cellular structure and polymerizing-protein motors, according to A*STAR researchers. The work focuses on ...
New understanding of cellulose could lead to tailored biofuels
In the search for low emission plant-based fuels, new research may help avoid having to choose between growing crops for food or fuel.
Prion-like proteins found in mustard plant
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, all in Massachusetts has found a prion-like protein in Arabidopsis thaliana, ...
