An artful study of cellular development in leaves
Credit: Virginia Lopez-Anido How do we become a complex, integrated multicellular organism from a single cell? While developmental biologists have ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Ozone pollution harms maize crops, study finds
Credit: Ainsworth lab Although stratospheric ozone protects us by filtering out the sun's ultraviolet radiation, tropospheric ozone is a harmful ...
Adult nocturnal fishflies found to visit flowers for food
Credit: Associate Professor Naoto Sugiura Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found that adult nocturnal fishflies (Neochauliodes amamioshimanus), which are ...
Fungi could manipulate bacteria to enrich soil with nutrients
Researchers have discovered a group of soil bacteria that could yield alternatives to conventional fertilizers for enriching soil and improving ...
Realtime imaging of female gamete formation in plants
New research from Japanese scientists offers a glimpse of how female gametes' cell fates are determined and shows promise for ...
Two plant immune branches more intimately connected than previously believed
Credit: Dr. Kenichi Tsuda Plant inducible defense starts with the recognition of microbes, which leads to the activation of a ...
Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish as CO2 rises, which could be good for climate
Credit: Scott Ableman/Flickr How plants will fare as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise is a tricky problem and, researchers ...
Study finds microbial-plant interactions affect the microbial response to climate change
Digging into climate change's impact on microbesCredit: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Steven Allison University of California, Irvine, biologists have ...
Seagrasses turn back the clock on ocean acidification
Expansive study shows seagrass meadows can buffer ocean acidificationCredit: Melissa Ward, UC Davis Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows ...
Sounds like home: Murrelets choose breeding locations by eavesdropping on other murrelets
Credit: Brett Lovelace, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers broadcast marbled murrelet calls in mature forests ...
Shining, colored LED lighting on microalgae for next-generation biofuel
Combined blue and red illumination enhances growth, biosynthesis of D. Salina microalgaeCredit: Xiaojian Zhou/Yangzhou University WASHINGTON, March 30, 2021 -- ...
64% of global agricultural land at risk of pesticide pollution?
Asia and Europe revealed as having regions at high-risk of pesticide pollutionCredit: Associate Professor Federico Maggi, Dr Fiona Tang, University ...
New oil palm map to inform policy and landscape-level planning
Credit: Image produced using QGIS IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce ...
Researchers notice pattern on surface of leaves, uncover new clue about plant evolution
Uncommon group of aquatic and terrestrial species key to discovery of how plants breatheCredit: Hiroyuki Koga, CC BY 4.0 A ...
Plants remember drought
Credit: (Picture: Rainer Hedrich / University of Wuerzburg) "I've been studying how plants regulate their water balance for over 35 ...
UMD reports six novel variants for CRISPR-Cas12a in plants, expanding genome engineering
New publication in Nature Communications offers patentable tools to improve the efficiency of food productionCredit: National Institutes of Health, public ...
Forests on caffeine: coffee waste can boost forest recovery
Credit: Rebecca Cole A new study finds that coffee pulp, a waste product of coffee production, can be used to ...
Clearing of woody weeds in Baringo County, Kenya, may yield major livelihood benefits
A new study suggests that clearing the invasive woody weed Prosopis julifora and grassland restoration in Baringo County, Kenya, may ...
Forest restoration action must prioritize diversity over scale for cheaper, long-term success
Researchers investigating the economic costs of forest restoration find that more up-front investment in tree diversity leads to greater long-term ...
Shrub willow as a bioenergy crop
Credit: Armen Kemanian Renewable energy demand and consumption is at an all-time high in the United States. Shrub willow - ...
