Salt stress disrupts plant growth by impairing ion balance and reducing water uptake, posing a significant challenge to agriculture and forestry. Maintaining sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+) balance is particularly vital in ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 3, 2024
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Yosemite National Park is famous for towering waterfalls, giant sequoia trees and massive granite cliffs. But at an out-of-the-way spot near the park's western boundary few visitors ever see, a landmark of a different type ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2024
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It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that was previously cultivated conventionally, a new study from Lund University suggests. After thirty years, the ...
Ecology
Sep 2, 2024
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UNSW experts say creating water from the air around us could be a significant tool in meeting the needs of millions of people around the world.
Environment
Sep 2, 2024
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The Philippines is under global scrutiny as it proceeds with the controlled rollout of an unproven African swine fever (ASF) vaccine from Vietnam amid doubts from experts about its safety and efficacy.
Veterinary medicine
Sep 2, 2024
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I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the tomatoes don't look good. Half of the plants are ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2024
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Climate change will increase the risk of foodborne illness from Salmonella enterica, according to a new study. The research appears in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Using newly generated "optogenetic" tobacco plants, research teams from the University of Würzburg's Departments of Plant Physiology and Neurophysiology have investigated how plants process external signals.
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2024
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A recent study has unveiled the sophisticated methods pathogens use to weaken plant defenses. It shows how a pathogen's effector protein targets the chloroplast protein StFC-II, increasing its levels in chloroplasts and reducing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2024
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Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ocean of corn. The term ...
Agriculture
Aug 28, 2024
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