Tag: Plant Sciences

Credit: Ralph Panstruga & Matthew Moscou People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight ...

Credit: Noam Eckshtain-Levi, Susanna Leigh Harris, Reizo Quilat Roscios, and Elizabeth Anne Shank Certain bacteria, known as plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), ...

Credit: Natalie Hempel de Ibarra Big bumblebees take time to learn the locations of the best flowers, new research shows. ...

Though cooler and wetter springs drive an increase in grass production compared to 1978 levels, hotter summers mean all that ...

Clovamide presence in disease-resistant chocolate tree leaves may spur novel breeding programCredit: Ben Knollenberg/Penn State The finding of relatively high ...

Credit: Montage by Stefan Jansson and Pushan Bag How can conifers that are used for example as Christmas trees keep ...

$4.67 million helps put new fruits to the testCredit: Chandrika Ramadugu/UCR UC Riverside scientists are betting an ancient solution will ...

Credit: George Poinar Jr., OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers have identified a spectacular new genus and species ...

Credit: Janak R. Joshi, Linxing Yao, Amy O. Charkowski, and Adam L. Heuberger Potato is the most consumed vegetable crop ...

Credit: Earlham Institute Plants have the same variation in body clocks as that found in humans, according to new research ...

A future of fewer Christmas trees and other conifersCredit: Joseph Stewart, USGS/UC Davis In the aftermath of megafires that devastated ...

UT AgResearch-TNC awarded for their commitment to forest conservationCredit: Photo by D. Edlund, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- University of ...

Credit: Credits: NASA/Nima Madani More plants and longer growing seasons in the northern latitudes have converted parts of Alaska, Canada ...

Research on Indonesia shows effect of human modificationCredit: T. Smith A new study led by researchers in the Geography Department ...

Credit: Photograph: Christian Roesti The world is getting warmer and warmer - and many organisms native to lower latitudes or ...

University of Missouri researcher Jay Thelen pays respect to the past as he looks toward the futureCredit: University of Missouri. ...

Rainfall patterns remained largely unaffected despite dramatic climate changesCredit: McGill University It's known that the primary cause of the mass ...

$10 million project hunts underground for keys to trees' healthCredit: Nichole Ginnan/UCR A UC Riverside-led team is looking at tiny ...

Credit: BAT / KBP Investigational New Drug application approved by the FDA for COVID-19 candidate vaccine, allowing BAT to progress ...

Credit: Tomilee Turner Agriculture accounts for more than a third of water use in the United States. In drier parts ...