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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The REPLANT Act provides money for the US Forest Service to plant more than a billion trees in the next nine years. The World Economic Forum aims to help plant a trillion trees around the world by 2030. Many US cities have ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2023
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Exposing seedlings to ethylene in darkness increases size and vigor, in a finding with implications for agriculture. Farmers have worked to increase crop yields for millennia, and the quest remains urgent as the human population ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 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 a new study, a Penn State-led research team discovered evidence that browsing by white-tailed deer had relatively little long-term impact on two tree species in a northern forest.
Ecology
Jan 31, 2023
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For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf couldn't have had better timing.
Ecology
Oct 24, 2022
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One tree at a time, David Saville has made it his life's work to bring back West Virginia's red spruce forests—and maybe help preserve the species hundreds of miles farther north while he's at it.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2022
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An important mechanism promoting species coexistence is conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD), which inhibits conspecific neighbors by accumulating host-specific enemies near adult trees and thus promoting species ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2022
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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have invented a new method to encourage bacteria to form growth-promoting ecosystems that could be used to coat the roots of plant seedlings, which is expected to result in stronger, ...
Biochemistry
Jun 21, 2022
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With over 4 feet of annual precipitation in the Northeast United States, drought is not often considered a major factor affecting the region's forests. But warming temperatures cause forests to dry out quicker between rains. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2022
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