Because breathing is generally involuntary, we sometimes forget how complicated it is. But biologists are gaining new insight into the intricate process in plants, with big implications for how to feed the world in the future.
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2022
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More than 50 years, ago researchers discovered that plants can sense carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. As CO2 levels change, "breathing" pores in leaves called stomata open and close, thus controlling evaporation of water, ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2022
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Every day, large quantities of human-generated synthetic chemicals enter Quebec's wetlands and waterways, altering natural cycles.
Ecology
Jul 5, 2022
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After injury, plants make a trade-off between repairing damaged tissue and ramping up their defenses, according to a new study led by researchers in New York University's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and published ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2022
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A new study uses novel single-cell profiling techniques to reveal how plants add new cell layers that help them resist climate stressors like drought or flooding. The research focuses on corn—a critically important crop ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 2, 2021
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Plant roots can grow without limit. To do so, they need to balance the production of new cells via cell division and elongation. Plant hormones known as brassinosteroids play a key role in this balancing act. New work by ...
Plants & Animals
May 18, 2021
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You might have observed plants competing for sunlight—the way they stretch upwards and outwards to block each other's access to the sun's rays—but out of sight, another type of competition is happening underground. In ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2020
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Researchers led by prof. Wout Boerjan (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) have discovered a way to stably finetune the amount of lignin in poplar by applying CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Lignin is one of the main structural ...
Biotechnology
Oct 6, 2020
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Plant scientists have long known that crop yield is proportional to the dose of nitrogen fertilizer, but the increased use of fertilizers is costly and harmful to the environment. Until now, the underlying mechanisms by which ...
Biotechnology
May 11, 2020
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New research from Cornell University shows that plants can communicate with each other when they come under attack from pests.
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2019
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