Breeding a hardier, more nutritious wheat
Credit: Lynn Veenstra Some new crop varieties are bred to be more nutritious. Others are more resilient, bred to tolerate ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Self-isolation or keep calm and carry on — the plant cell’s dilemma
Credit: John Innes Centre Self-isolation in the face of a marauding pathogen may save lives but it comes at the ...
Jan Esper receives ERC Advanced Grant to improve climate reconstructions from tree rings
EU funding for the collection of a new tree ring network covering the Northern Hemisphere and the development of tree ...
Italian Society of Vegetation Science signs with Pensoft to publish its journal on ARPHA
The first 2020 papers of the open-access, peer-reviewed international journal Plant Sociology are now available on the journal's new, user-friendly ...
Foxglove plants produce heart medicine; can science do it better?
Two studies mark an early step in a UB biologist's quest to understand how foxgloves make medicinal compoundsCredit: Zhen Wang ...
Discovered a small protein that synchronizes the circadian clocks in shoots and roots
The CSIC researcher at CRAG Paloma Mas leads a study published in Nature Plants demonstrating that the clock protein ELF4 ...
Acta Biologica Sibirica signs with Pensoft and moves to ARPHA
The first papers in 2020 of Acta Biologica Sibirica, journal of Altai State University, are published on the innovative ARPHA ...
Discovery of a mechanism plants use to toggle on photosynthesis chosen by top journal
Credit: WSU Harvesting sunlight to make energy is a complex reaction that plants do naturally, but isn't well understood. A ...
Fungus application thwarts major soybean pest, study finds
Credit: Photo by USDA-ARS CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The soybean cyst nematode sucks the nutrients out of soybean roots, causing more ...
Hormone produced in starved leaves stimulates roots to take up nitrogen
Scientists identify a hormone produced in nitrogen-starved leaves that stimulates roots to take up nitrogen from soilCredit: Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi, Nagoya ...
Integrated crop-livestock systems in paddy fields: New strategies for flooded rice nutrition
Credit: Luiz G. Denardin Worldwide, flooded rice cultivation has degraded soil quality, reducing rice yield and requiring intense use of ...
Wallflowers could lead to new drugs
Researchers show that the wallflower is an excellent model plant for discovering new cardenolides that could be used to treat ...
Amazonian crops domesticated 10,000 years ago
Credit: José Capriles, Penn State As agriculture emerged in early civilizations, crops were domesticated in four locations around the world ...
Mapping the evolution of coastal waters in Metro Vancouver: The Burrard Inlet
What did the Burrard Inlet look like in the past, compared to how it is now?Credit: Fanny Couture What did ...
Mutation reduces energy waste in plants
Credit: © Markus Scholz, Uni Halle To this end, the team identified several thousand proteins, determined their respective amounts in ...
Building a bean that resists leafhoppers
Credit: Tim Porch Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice. ...
Wild tomato resistance to bacterial canker has implications for commercial tomato industry
Credit: F. Christopher Peritore-Galve Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that leads to wilt, cankers, and eventually death. The ...
How wallflowers evolved a complementary pair of plant defenses
New findings show that a pair of complementary chemical defenses evolved independently in wallflowers, shaped by co-evolution with local insectsCredit: ...
Fungi found in cotton can decrease root knot nematode galling
Credit: Cesar Valencia Texas A&M University scientists found that a surprising number of fungi naturally associated with cultivated cotton were ...
Study identifies new temperature sensing mechanism in plants
Phytochrome foci have different behaviors at different temperatures and types of lightCredit: Stan Lim/UC Riverside A protein called phytochrome B, ...
