For the first time, researchers have shown that native 'ohi'a seedlings can survive for at least a year in areas that have active mortality from Rapid 'ohi'a Death, or ROD, a fungal disease that is devastating to this dominant ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2020
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Extremely faint light emitted by plant seedlings could be used to assess the health and growth potential of individual seeds. The tell-tale signals, known as ultra-weak photon emissions, had previously been detected only ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2020
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Plants—literally rooted in Earth—lack locomotion. And although plants may appear static, even the tiniest seedlings are sophisticated organisms that sense and respond to their environment. Seedlings may not travel, but ...
Biotechnology
Oct 21, 2014
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A team of researchers has tested how each gene within the genome of rice—one of the world's most important staple crops—senses and responds to combinations of water and nutrients. Its findings, published in the journal ...
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2019
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In northern latitudes, producers of bedding plants depend on supplemental lighting during the late winter and early spring growing seasons. Unfortunately, these peak times for young plant production are also the darkest. ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2015
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Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, a local official said Wednesday.
Environment
May 22, 2013
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Millennium Seed Bank Partnership scientists at the Lombardy Seed Bank (University of Pavia, Italy) and Wakehurst Place (RBG Kew) are engaged in studies to understand better the impact of climate warming on the reproductive ...
Ecology
Mar 25, 2013
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A DAUCO team finds that silicon is a potential means of promoting plant growth, probably by favoring the absorption of nutrients such as potassium
Plants & Animals
Nov 28, 2023
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A research team led by Prof. Fan Qiaohui from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Luo Yongming from the Institute of Soil ...
Biotechnology
Jun 26, 2023
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In places where we need to protect valuable plants—whether for ecological or economic reasons—local herbivores can cause significant damage.
Ecology
Feb 5, 2024
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