Hot urban temperatures and tree transpiration
Credit: Photo by Josephine Baran on Unsplash Shade from urban trees has long been understood to offer respite from the ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Studying interactions between ground-nesting bees and soils
Credit: Jennifer Fedenko Many living creatures live in soil. Though their sizes range from microscopic soil microbes to larger animals ...
NSF supports project to demystify communication in plants
Credit: Allison Usavage, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Tracking the role of messenger RNA, or mRNA, through plants is like ...
Pesticides can protect crops from hydrophobic pollutants
Effectiveness demonstrated in the Cucurbitaceae familyCredit: Kobe University Researchers have revealed that commercial pesticides can be applied to crops in ...
Scientists unlock genetic secrets of wine growers’ worst enemy
Pest colonizes grape vines, forms root and leaf tumors, repels other predatorsCredit: Paul Nabity/UCR Following a decade-long effort, scientists have ...
Scientists record rapid carbon loss from warming peatlands
Credit: Misha Krassovski/ORNL,U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a direct ...
European maize highlights the hidden differences within a species
Credit: Picture : A. Ruban and A. Houben, IPK, Gatersleben Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) was initially domesticated by Native ...
Researchers develop new cytosine base editors with high specificity and precision
Credit: IGDB Base editors, which enable production of highly efficient targeted point mutations in genomic DNA without causing double-stranded DNA ...
Cycad plants provide an important ‘ecosystem service’
Loss of cycads from natural habitats may create detrimental ripple effects for other organismsCredit: University of Guam A study published ...
Desert mosses use quartz rocks as sun shades
Some mosses in the Mojave Desert live under translucent quartz as protection from the sunCredit: Kirsten Fisher. CSU-Los Angeles Living ...
Highly stable amyloid protein aggregates may help plant seeds last longer
Credit: Dr. Pavel Zykin Highly stable polymeric "amyloid" proteins, best known for their role in Alzheimer's disease, have been mostly ...
Lightning strikes more than 100 million times per year in the tropics
Credit: Credit: Evan Gora Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama have published dramatic maps showing the ...
Big wheel ruts, big economic losses
Credit: Jodi DeJong-Hughes Excessively wet field conditions at harvest throughout the North Central and upper Midwest regions resulted in many ...
Novel ‘on-off’ switch discovered in plant defenses
Protective mechanism paves the way to improved plant disease resistance and food stabilityCredit: Huffaker Lab, UC San Diego To ensure ...