New research from an Iowa State University scientist identifies a genetic mechanism that governs growth and drought tolerance in plants, a development that could lead to better performing traits in crops.
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Feb 27, 2017
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Together with collaborators in Austria, scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in Norwich (UK) are unravelling the complex mechanisms underlying plants' innate abilities to resist pests and pathogens. In a new paper ...
Biotechnology
Jan 19, 2017
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Iowa State University scientists are piecing together clues about how a global pest hacks the immune systems of soybeans.
Biotechnology
Oct 13, 2016
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Monash researchers have discovered a new mechanism that enables plants to regulate their flowering in response to raised temperatures.
Biotechnology
Apr 29, 2016
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University of Delaware researchers have identified two novel molecular players necessary to regulate plasmodesmata—communication channels in plants that bridge individual cells with their neighboring cells for distribution ...
Biotechnology
Apr 11, 2016
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Plants are able to predict when infections are more likely to occur and regulate their immune response accordingly, new research has found.
Biotechnology
Dec 16, 2015
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A bacterial signal that when recognized by rice plants enables the plants to resist a devastating blight disease has been identified by a multi-national team of researchers led by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy ...
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2015
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Like most other plants, rice is well equipped with an effective immune system that enables it to detect and fend off disease-causing microbes. But that built-in immunity can be further boosted when the rice plant receives ...
Biotechnology
Apr 3, 2015
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Similar to humans and animals, plants possess an innate immune system that protects them from invading pathogens. Molecular structures that only occur in pathogens enable their recognition and trigger the immune response. ...
Biotechnology
Mar 3, 2015
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Plants that come under attack from pathogens have an automatic immune response. Fungi get around this plant immunity by injecting proteins into the host plant cells. These 'effector proteins' enable the fungi to escape the ...
Biotechnology
Oct 6, 2014
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