An antibiotic masquerading as a natural compound in the Giant Madeiran Squill
Credit: Luke Robertson A previous study has shown that a type of squill growing in Madeira produces a chemical compound ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Pollen measurement system developed at TU Graz analyses fast, cheaply and automatically
Credit: © Nam Cao Pollen: essential for the pollination of many plants, but the bane of allergy sufferers. Pollen warning ...
Impacts of cover crop planting dates on soil properties after 4 years
Credit: K. Koehler-Cole Cover crop impacts on soil properties depends on cover crop productivity. Planting cover crops early and in ...
Almond orchard recycling a climate-smart strategy
The practice can create healthier soils, save water and yield more almondsCredit: Brent Holtz, UCANR Recycling trees onsite can sequester ...
Overcoming carbon loss from farming in peatlands
Credit: Jacynthe Dessureault-Rompre In many regions of the world, farming must be done on areas of soil categorized as histosols. ...
Bison in northern Yellowstone proving to be too much of a good thing
Credit: Bob Beschta, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Increasing numbers of bison in Yellowstone National Park in recent years have become ...
‘Tequila’ powered biofuels more efficient than corn or sugar
Ethanol from agave could be used for transport fuel and hand sanitizerCredit: University of Sydney The agave plant used to ...
Exeter researchers discover a novel chemistry to protect our crops from fungal disease
Credit: University of Exeter Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security. Currently, we protect our ...
Triple-threat genetic toolkit aids with eco-friendly chemical production
CABBI researchers have developed three innovative tools to facilitate production of high-value compounds from yeast strain Issatchenkia orientalisCredit: Center for ...
Reducing reliance on nitrogen fertilizers with biological nitrogen fixation
Credit: Beverly J. Agtuca, Sylwia A. Stopka, Thalita R. Tuleski, Fernanda P. do Amaral, Sterling Evans, Yang Liu, Dong Xu, ...
Mapping the cannabis genome to improve crops and health
Credit: David Stobbe for University of Saskatchewan Unlocking the full potential of cannabis for agriculture and human health will require ...
Plants and animals aren’t so different when it comes to climate
A new study reveals that plants and animals are remarkably similar in their responses to changing environmental conditions.Credit: John J. ...
All microgastrinae wasps from around the world finally together in a 1,089-page monograph
Credit: Dr. Jose Fernandez-Triana With 3,000 known species and thousands more left to describe, the wasps of the subfamily Microgastrinae ...
‘Thermometer’ protein regulates blooming
Credit: © Silva et al. / PNAS As average temperatures rise every year, it is no longer rare to see ...
Organellogenesis still a work in progress in novel dinoflagellates
Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba identify two novel dinoflagellates containing relic nuclei from endosymbiont algae, making them perfect ...
New satellite-based algorithm pinpoints crop water use
The BESS-STAIR framework, developed by CABBI researchers at the University of Illinois, was tested in 12 sites across the US ...
Natural solutions to the climate crisis? One-quarter is all down to Earth…
Credit: KIB Joint research conducted by The Nature Conservancy and the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences calculated ...
Major advances in our understanding of New World Morning Glories
Credit: Robert Scotland A major advance in revealing the unknown plant diversity on planet Earth is made with a new ...
Ancient hornwort genomes could lead to crop improvement
Credit: Eftychis Frangedakis Some 500 million years ago - when our continents were connected in a single land mass and ...
Human activity affects interactions between plants and seed-dispersing birds
Analysis of Atlantic Rainforest fragments shows how extinction of animal species, habitat loss and forest fragmentation affect networks of ecological ...
