Alfalfa is a $10 billion-a-year crop in the United States and is produced in all 50 states. It fixes nitrogen in the soil, saving an estimated $457 million a year in fertilizer costs, and reduces pests and plant pathogens ...
Environment
Jul 20, 2015
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Engineers developing moveable robot components may soon take advantage of a trick plants use. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and Harvard University in Cambridge (USA) have devised ...
Materials Science
Jun 30, 2015
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Purdue University researchers have pinpointed the gene that controls whether soybean seed coats are hard or permeable, a finding that could be used to develop better varieties for southern and tropical regions, enrich the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 22, 2015
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Restoring diverse vegetation along the Atlantic seaboard after devastating hurricanes or replanting forests after destructive wildfires rests mightily upon one tiny but important ingredient: the seed.
Ecology
May 12, 2015
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If you have this beautiful flower in your garden, you should uproot it before the seed pods explode, releasing thousands of seeds. It spreads like the black plague.
Ecology
May 7, 2015
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A new hybrid plant used in anti-malarial drug production, developed by scientists at the University of York's Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), is now registered as a new variety in China.
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2015
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered why the first buds of spring come increasingly earlier as the climate changes.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2015
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Research which germinated plantlets from orchid seed 'surrogates' has boosted the survival prospects of threatened terrestrial orchids.
Ecology
Mar 30, 2015
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Inside every seed is the embryo of a plant, and in most cases also a storage of food needed to power initial growth of the young seedling. A seed consists mainly of carbohydrates and these have to be is transported from the ...
Biotechnology
Mar 20, 2015
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Tissue culture technology is helping scientists to grow a native sedge notoriously difficult to germinate naturally.
Ecology
Jan 6, 2015
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