Biologist Xinnian Dong says her "best Christmas gift ever" arrived in the form of a phone call. The call was from her longtime friend and collaborator at Duke University, Pei Zhou, who rang with long-awaited news: they had ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 11, 2022
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Wrapping potato seeds in biodegradable paper made from unusable parts of banana plants reduces the infestation and harmful effects of a nasty plant pathogen—a worm called the potato cyst nematode—and sharply increases ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 8, 2022
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Sometimes, to see the roots, you have to look up.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2022
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More than 20 years after the first release of the human genome, scientists at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, have for the first time ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 3, 2022
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The Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to more than 50 different kinds of insecticides, making the insect a "super pest" that wreaks havoc on potatoes around the world.
Evolution
Feb 18, 2022
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Your gut bacteria need vitamin B12 just as much as you do. Though DNA is usually passed from parent to child, new research shows gut bacteria transfer genes through "sex" in order to take their vitamins.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2022
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An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 18, 2022
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North Carolina State University researchers continue to track the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots in the United States before attacking ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 14, 2021
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More than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from micronutrient malnutrition due to deficiencies in minerals and vitamins. Poor people in developing countries are most affected, because their diets are typically dominated ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 16, 2020
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Sweet potato biodiversity can help increase the climate resilience of small-scale farming, according to the findings of a study undertaken by a multi-institutional collaborative of researchers. The findings of this global ...
Environment
Oct 14, 2020
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