Tag: Plant Sciences

Credit: University of Granada Researchers from the University of Granada, the Andalusian Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Fishing, Food ...

ASPB names 2019 recipient of Leadership in Science Policy Public Service Award

Honor to be presented at Plant Biology 2019 in San Jose, California ROCKVILLE, MD - The American Society of Plant ...

Natural ingredients in supplements, nutraceuticals get a new type of barcode

Increasingly, shoppers are choosing nutraceuticals, cosmetics and herbal remedies with natural ingredients, and these products are readily available in many ...

Managing the ups and downs of coffee production

Credit: César Elias Botelho National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuaria de Minas Gerais Each day, ...

Ant farmers boost plant nutrition

June 25, 2019

Ant farmers boost plant nutrition with their feces, offering clues for future food securityCredit: University of Oxford Humans began cultivating ...

Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of CO2

Credit: Rob Spencer Thousand-year-old tropical soil unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agriculture land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into ...

Branching out: Making graphene from gum trees

Researchers have developed a cost-effective and eco-friendly way of producing graphene using one of Australia's most abundant resources, eucalyptus trees.Credit: ...

Broad Institute researchers use novel field-ready CRISPR platform to detect plant genes

UTSA uses permeable pavements and grass to cool cities and clean the water

Credit: Photo by Jonas Weckschmied (San Antonio, June 24, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College ...

Research details response of sagebrush to 2017 solar eclipse

Credit: Krag Beverly The total solar eclipse's swath across Wyoming and the United States in August 2017 provided an opportunity ...

Timed release of turmeric stops cancer cell growth

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - A Washington State University research team has developed a drug delivery system using curcumin, the ...

Plants’ oil-production accelerator also activates the brakes

Scientists discover seemingly paradoxical mechanism for regulating oil synthesisCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists studying plant biochemistry at the U.S. ...

Why climate change means a rethink of coffee and cocoa production systems

Credit: Bioversity International/K.DeSousa Global demand for coffee and cocoa is on the rise. Yet across the equatorial belt where these ...

New research shows importance of climate on spruce beetle flight

Credit: Karina Puikkonen/Colorado State University If the climate continues warming as predicted, spruce beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains could ...

Investigating coral and algal ‘matchmaking’ at the cellular level

Could more heat tolerant, non-preferred algae could revive bleached coral communities even if the relationship is less efficient?Credit: Tingting Xiang ...

Climate change could affect symbiotic relationships between microorganisms and trees

An international research consortium mapped the global distribution of tree-root symbioses with fungi and bacteria that are vital to forest ...

Biochar may boost carbon storage, but benefits to germination and growth appear scant

Credit: Photo courtesy Nancy Holm CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Biochar may not be the miracle soil additive that many farmers and ...

Aggressive, non-native wetland plants squelch species richness more than dominant natives do

Credit: Greg Spyreas, Michael Jeffords and Susan Post CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Dominant, non-native plants reduce wetland biodiversity and abundance more ...

Directed evolution comes to plants

Credit: 2019 KAUST A new platform for speeding up and controlling the evolution of proteins inside living plants has been ...

Unearthing the sweet potato proteome