The downward trend: Nature’s decline risks our quality of life
Scientists conducted a sweeping review of nature's contributions to humans in order to present a clear breakdown of global trends ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Seeds transfer their microbes to the next generation
Credit: Stockholm University Scientists have been pondering if the microbiome of plants is due to nature or nurture. Research at ...
Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum
Credit: Nadia Shakoor ITHACA, N.Y. - When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led ...
Novel effector biology research provides insights into devastating citrus greening disease
Credit: Kelley J. Clark, Zhiqian Pang, Jessica Trinh, Nian Wang, and Wenbo Ma Citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing ...
Getting shapes into numbers
A mathematical framework enables accurate characterization of shapesCredit: MPI-MP, Jacqueline Nowak In nature, many things have evolved that differ in ...
Stealing the spotlight in the field and kitchen
Credit: Travis Parker January 20, 2021 - Plant breeders are constantly working to develop new bean varieties to meet the ...
Butterfly anti-aphrodisiac and floral scent
Animals and plants take different evolutionary routes to the same chemicalCredit: Kelsey JRP Byers, 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A novel family of ...
Scientists reveal structure of plants’ energy generators
The first 3D structure of the components of the mitochondrial electron transport chain in plants reveals unique features that could ...
As the American hemp industry grows, so does our understanding of hemp diseases
Credit: Lindsey D. Thiessen As hemp begins to reemerge as an important crop in the United States, scientists are beginning ...
New heat method kills pathogens with minimal damage to plants
Credit: William W. Turechek, Ole Myhrene, Janet Slovin, and Natalia A. Peres In the strawberry nursery industry, a nursery's reputation ...
New study compiles four years of corn loss data from 26 states and Ontario, Canada
Credit: Brandon Kleinke Plant pathologists working at universities across 26 corn-producing states in the United States and in Ontario, Canada, ...
Understanding future species distribution: new data for biogeographers
Credit: Noce, S., Caporaso, L. & Santini, M. A new global dataset of bioclimatic indicators. Sci Data 7, 398 (2020). ...
Rare lichen unique to Florida discovered in museum collections, may be extinct
Credit: Robert Lücking GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis ...
How plants produce defensive toxins without harming themselves
Defense and autotoxicity: Researchers elucidate the biosynthesis and mode of action of diterpene glycosides in wild tobaccoCredit: Anna Schroll Plants ...
Smithsonian scientists reduce uncertainty in forest carbon storage calculations
Credit: Steve Paton, STRI Investors who bet on tropical forest conservation and reforestation to solve global warming by storing carbon ...
GM plant grows insect sex pheromone compounds needed for green pest control in agriculture
GM plant to give boost to green insect controlsCredit: Kurt Miller Photography RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The camelina plant, a source ...
Micro-climate moulds and reshapes northern insect communities, herbivory and predation
Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpaa Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate ...
A highly sensitive technique for measuring the state of a cytoskeleton
Credit: Associate Professor Takumi Higaki A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has developed a highly sensitive technique to quantitatively ...
Bees respond to wildfire aftermath by producing more female offspring
Credit: Jim Rivers, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have found that the blue ...
Honeybees reveal how our floral landscape has changed over the last 65 years
Honeybees have been helping researchers from the National Botanic Garden of Wales track how the UK's fields, hedgerows, wild spaces ...
