UMBC research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine
Findings reveal new genetic links between plants' circadian clock and immunity systemsCredit: Marlayna Demond for UMBC UMBC's Hua Lu, professor ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Crop resilience is focus of new interdisciplinary research
Project will focus on microbial interactions with wheatCredit: Becky Kirkland, NC State University Research suggests that microbes in the soil, ...
The battle to save citrus fruits
Huanglongbing, (HLB), also known as citrus greening, has devastated Florida's citrus farms. Although some growers in China and Brazil have ...
Superweed resists another class of herbicides, study finds
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - We've all heard about bacteria that are becoming resistant to ...
Research reveals sustainable method to produce lifesaving opiate antidotes at reduced cost
Cost of current method limits availability and generates harmful waste productsCredit: Howard Berg ST. LOUIS, MO, June 11, 2019 - ...
EMBO elects 56 new members
Heidelberg, 11 June 2019 - EMBO announces today that 56 life scientists have been elected to its membership, joining a ...
Skinny cod and grey seal reveals troubling changes to food web in the Baltic Sea
Credit: Olle Karlsson "It is important that you understand how the food web works when managing a fishery. It is ...
Switchgrass hybrid yields insights into plant evolution
Credit: Courtesy of MSU Switchgrass is attractive as a potential bioenergy crop because it can grow for years without having ...
Lettuce have it! Machine learning for cr-optimization
Credit: G's Growers At Earlham Institute (EI), artificial intelligence based techniques such as machine learning is moving from being merely ...
New microneedle technique speeds plant disease detection
Credit: NC State University Researchers have developed a new technique that uses microneedle patches to collect DNA from plant tissues ...
U of G researchers discover meat-eating plant in Ontario, Canada
In what is believed to be a first for North America, biologists at the University of Guelph have discovered that ...
Older forests resist change — climate change, that is
With age, forests in eastern US and Canada become less vulnerable to climate change, study findsNew research finds that older ...
Researchers from IKBFU discover that pine nut shells increase physical endurance
Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University For several decades, the number of chronicle diseases has been growing. The main reason ...
Could you fail a drug test by taking CBD? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 6, 2019 -- Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a non-psychoactive compound produced by the ...
Emerging frontiers in phenological research
Special issue of Applications in Plant Sciences presents innovative methods to understand how ecosystems react to climate changeCredit: Image credit ...
US struggles to keep up as hemp industry grows
U.S. hemp production is soaring, but government oversight hasn't kept up, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News ...
Verifying ‘organic’ foods
Organic foods are increasingly popular -- and pricey. Organic fruits and vegetables are grown without synthetic pesticides, and because of ...
Speeding up potato cultivation by using new methods
Millions in funding for HHU plant researchCredit: HHU / V. Prigge There are several thousand different varieties of Solanum tuberosum, ...
Would you eat genetically modified food if you understood the science behind it?
Credit: Jonathon McPhetres/University of Rochester Jonathon McPhetres, a newly minted PhD in psychology from the University of Rochester, admits he's ...
Using population genetics, scientists confirm origins of root rot in Michigan ornamentals
Floriculture, the growing of flowering and ornamental plants for gardens and floristry, is an economically important industry in Michigan, which ...
