Tag: Plant Sciences

Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A dramatic decline in bees and other pollinating insects presents a ...

Christian A. Davies, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the 2021 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Technology Innovation ...

Credit: Shu Kee Lam January 13, 2021 - The element nitrogen is a double-edged sword. It is essential for growing ...

Some flowers use a clever strategy to ensure effective pollination by bees, doling out pollen gradually from two different sets ...

Guam's branched cycads less vulnerable to destruction by non-native insectCredit: Montgomery Botanical Center Research on cycad trees in Colombia, Guam, ...

Credit: Patrick Kelley University of Wyoming researchers headed a study that shows nonnative birds in Oahu, Hawaii, have taken over ...

Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign When in space, astronauts typically eat dehydrated, nutrient-dense food, but when it comes to longer ...

Credit: image adapted from James L. Van Etten and David D. Dunigan, doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005751.g001) Fast facts: This study describes essential differences ...

Musk portfolio includes familiar and completely novel aromas to bring precious, warm, and comforting scents to fine and household fragrances, ...

Bacterium inside the seed can lead to complete resistance to a particular pathogen and is naturally transmitted from one plant ...

CABBI study shows the annual crop behaves more like the perennial grass miscanthus in its efficient use of water and ...

Credit: IGDB Chinese scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have ...

Credit: Morgan Grabau By late fall, much of the Midwest is a pleasing landscape of dry, harvested corn fields. It ...

Credit: Dr. Nichole Ginnan While humanity is facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the citrus industry is trying to manage its own ...

Credit: Elena Stiles The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that ushered in a mass extinction and ended the dinosaurs ...

Credit: Nitzan Shabek Plants can perceive and react to light across a wide spectrum. New research from Prof. Nitzan Shabek's ...

Credit: Fanny Moffette / University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African ...

Findings will help power companies promote ecosystem health in landscapes set aside for electric power delivery linesCredit: Courtesy Northern Arizona ...

Credit: University of Guam In a first-of-its-kind study within cycad horticulture literature, University of Guam researchers have found that the ...