Tag: Plant Sciences

November 1, 2019

An international team of researchers have created a resource that could help plant breeders increase the domestic watermelon's quality and ...

Rice yields plummet and arsenic rises in future climate-soil scenarios

November 1, 2019

Credit: (Image credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service) Rice is the largest global staple crop, consumed by more than half the ...

1,100 plants examined in massive, 9-year genomic diversity study

October 31, 2019

Six scientists with UT involved in effort to assess 1 billion years of plant evolutionCredit: Photo by A. Petlewski, Cornell ...

A new hazelnut has cracked its competitive marketplace

October 31, 2019

'PollyO' is proving to be a desirable hybridCredit: Shawn Mehlenbacher Researchers from Oregon State University have completed an examination of, ...

Researchers double sorghum grain yield to improve food supply

Credit: Ware lab/CSHL, 2019 Plant scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in their ...

Study shows how climate change may affect environmental conservation areas

Researchers classify 258 protected areas in Brazil as 'moderately vulnerable' and 17 as 'highly vulnerable' -- areas at greatest risk ...

To avoid cassava disease, Tanzanian farmers can plant certain varieties in certain seasons

Credit: Rudolph R. Shirima, et al. A nutty-flavored, starchy root vegetable, cassava (also known as yuca) is one of the ...

Bacterial arsenic efflux genes enabled plants to transport boron efficiently

Functional origin of Nodulin26-like-intrinsic-proteins in plants uncoveredCredit: J. Himpe/IPK Gatersleben Stubby roots, brittle branches, poor fertility - these are some ...

Researchers describe how Vitamin E works in plants under extreme conditions

Retrograde signalling: From chloroplast to the nucleusCredit: Sergi Munné-Bosch (Research Group ANTIOX of the University of Barcelona) Vitamin E is ...

In Southeast Asia, illegal hunting is a more threat to wildlife than forest degradation

Credit: Andrew Tilker For decades habitat loss and degradation were considered the important drivers for defaunation in tropical rainforest ecosystems. ...

Preserved pollen tells the history of floodplains

Credit: M.C. Ricker Many of us think about pollen only when allergy season is upon us. However, for soil scientists ...

New grant will help scientists study how cover crops affect plant disease

Credit: Christopher Gannon AMES, Iowa - A multi-state experiment that recently received a major grant will examine how planting cover ...

The use of sugarcane straw for bioenergy is an opportunity, but there are pros and cons

Brazilian researchers calculated the amount of nutrients in sugarcane leaves, which are normally left on the ground after harvest, and ...

Re-cracking the genetic code

Credit: Tomislav Alajbeg Crack open a biology textbook and you will find a standard icon of molecular biology: the table ...

Human activities boosted global soil erosion already 4,000 years ago

European and Canadian researchers join efforts to record changes of soil erosion over timeCredit: (Picture: Jean-Philippe-Jenny) Soil erosion reduces the ...

Following in Darwin’s footsteps: understanding the plant evolution of florist’s gloxinia

Credit: Elijah Rinaldi More than 150 years ago, Charles Darwin's fascination with genetics and domestication catapulted the scientific world into ...

Make fungi think they’re starving to stop them having sex, say scientists

October 28, 2019

Newly characterised receptors that repress sexual reproduction in fungi could be targeted to slow down their evolutionCredit: Brown and Goldman ...

The frostier the flower, the more potent the cannabis