Hamilton receives APGA Award of Merit
Retired UT Gardens director recognized for bloomin' great careerCredit: UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Susan Hamilton, the recently retired Director of ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Papers concludes that incentives to afforestation can be harmful to the environment
Credit: Cristian EcheverrÃa "Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile ...
Undergrad-led study suggests light environment modifications could maximize productivity
Credit: WEST project/University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The crops we grow in the field often form dense canopies with ...
Food-grade wheatgrass variety released for public use
Credit: Brett Heim Wheatgrass is packed with beneficial nutrients, which makes the crop a popular superfood. And now, more farmers ...
Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods
Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Throughout California, the effects of climate change are ...
Towards a green future: Efficient laser technique can convert cellulose into biofuel
Scientists developed a novel laser-based strategy for the effective degradation of cellulose into useful productsCredit: Tokyo University of Science With ...
Research in land plants shows nanoplastics accumulating in tissues
UMass Amherst, Shandong University offer one of the first nanoplastics studies in land plantsCredit: UMass Amherst/Xing lab Shandong University/Yuan and ...
Not so robust: robusta coffee more sensitive to warming than previously thought
Widely considered to better prepared for climate change than arabica coffee, a new study from Southeast Asia shows robusta coffee ...
Biologists unravel tangled mystery of plant cell growth
Insight could lead to bigger crops and better yieldsCredit: Carolyn Rasmussen/UCR When cells don't divide into proper copies of themselves, ...
Fungal pathogen disables plant defense mechanism
The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies the mustard oil bomb in plants of the cabbage familyCredit: Anna Schroll Cabbage ...
Uncovering the genetic basis of hermaphroditism in grapes, the trait that allowed domestication
Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis Plant experts at UC Davis have defined the genetic basis of sex determination in grapevines, one ...
AI goes underground: root crop growth predicted with drone imagery
Using machine learning, scientists can analyze drone images shot above the soil to understand how root crops respond to drought ...
Weed’s wily ways explained in Illinois research
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like antibiotic-resistant bacteria, some herbicide-resistant weeds can't be killed by ...
Self-powered ‘paper chips’ could help sound an early alarm for forest fires
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c04798 Recent devastating fires in the Amazon rain forest and ...
Crop residue decisions affect soil life
Credit: Rachel Schutte In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the ...
Overlooked: The role of bacterial viruses in plant health
Credit: University of Groningen We know how important bacteria and fungi are for the health of plants. In marine environments ...
Summer favorite bitter gourd genome shows unusual domestication, insight into evolution
Credit: Hideo Matsumura, Gene Research Center, Shinshu University The bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is a summer vegetable that graces the ...
Coffee, cocoa and vanilla: an opportunity for more trees in tropical agricultural landscapes
Research team from Göttingen University investigates the land-use history of agroforestry systemsCredit: Kristina Osen The cultivation of coffee, cocoa and ...
Cell wall research reveals possibility of simple and sustainable method to protect crops
Credit: Antonio Molina While crop diseases have devastating consequences on agriculture, causing losses of up to 30% in some crops, ...
Unpacking the two layers of bacterial gene regulation during plant infection
Credit: Tatsuya Nobori By analysing the different layers of bacterial gene expression during pathogen infection of a plant host, Kenichi ...
