New portable DNA sequencer quickly and accurately diagnoses wheat viruses
Credit: John P. Fellers, Christian Webb, Madison C. Fellers, Jessica Shoup Rupp, and Erick De Wolf New Portable DNA Sequencer ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Gift to UT Austin will advance programs in biodiversity, establish fellowship program
Credit: University of Texas at Austin A generous estate gift to The University of Texas at Austin from alumna and ...
Large-scale afforestation of African savannas will destroy valuable ecosystems
African scientists speak out about global plans to plant trees on their continent in order to fight climate changeCredit: Wits ...
Defining the centromere
Investigating the roles of kinetochores in cell divisionCredit: Images: Dr. Veit Schubert, IPK, Gatersleben Photos: Josef Bergstein, IPK, Gatersleben The ...
UConn launches hemp testing lab in response to industry need
Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo In response to a rapidly expanding commercial hemp industry driven by interest in products with CBD ...
‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas
Credit: Virgil Andrei A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an 'artificial ...
A complex marriage arrangement: New insights and unanswered questions in plant heterostyly
Landmark review highlights recent advances and unresolved questions as part of a New Phytologist special issue celebrating Prof. Spencer Barrett.Credit: ...
Data mining applied to scholarly publications to finally reveal Earth’s biodiversity
Credit: P Kishor (Plazi) At a time when a million species are at risk of extinction, according to a recent ...
All is FAIR in biodiversity research: Mandatory data audit at Pensoft’s journals
A thorough data auditing workflow ensures that datasets described in data papers across Pensoft's OA journal portfolio are fit-to-use prior ...
Bean tree plan to protect Amazon
Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders ...
First report of cotton blue disease in the United States
Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...
Next-generation sequencing used to identify cotton blue disease in the United States
Credit: Plant Management Network and Judith K. Brown St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--Cotton blue disease, caused by Cotton leafroll dwarf ...
How roots grow hair
'Smoke detectors' in plants also control the growth of root hairCredit: Andreas Battenberg / TUM The roots of plants can ...
Photosynthesis olympics: can the best wheat varieties be even better?
Credit: Dr Viridiana Silva-Perez/CoETP Scientists have put elite wheat varieties through a sort of "Photosynthesis Olympics" to find which varieties ...
Old friends and new enemies: How evolutionary history can predict insect invader impacts
Credit: Jeff Garnas/University of New Hampshire About 450 nonnative, plant-eating insect species live in North American forests. Most of these ...
Ants fight plant diseases
New research from Aarhus University shows that ants inhibit at least 14 different plant diseases.Credit: Jens Henrik Petersen New research ...
UC Riverside helps secure the future of food
$3 million program to train tomorrow's plant scientistsCredit: Stan Lim/UCR If you're eating fruits, nuts, grains, or vegetables in a ...
Clemson researcher creating perennial grasses that need less water and are fuel source
Credit: Clemson College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Clemson University College of Science Professor Hong Luo has received a $500,000 grant ...
Alfalfa and potassium: It’s complicated
Credit: Deborah Samac Has anyone ever told you to eat a banana when you have a muscle cramp or eye ...
New survey confirms muscadine grapes are affected by parasitic nematodes
Credit: Ganpati B. Jagdale Native to the Southeastern United States, muscadine grapes are a superfruit. With high levels of resveratrol, ...
