‘Postcode lottery’ of nutrient intake from crops revealed in new study
Credit: The University of Nottingham The amount of nutrients people get from the crops that they eat is a type ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Plant consumers play unexpectedly large role in the evolution of seedling success
Influence of herbivores likely counteracts earlier plant emergence due to climate changeCredit: Cleland Lab, UC San Diego For young plants, ...
Mapping the Midwest’s soil topography
Credit: Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences AMES, Iowa - Climate change and soil erosion feed into ...
New peanut has a wild past and domesticated present
Researchers dig into the past to create new varieties to improve productionCredit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA The wild relatives of modern ...
Discovery increases likelihood of growing food despite drought
Genes to keep plants greenCredit: Siobhan Brady/UC Davis University of California scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food ...
Turn problems into opportunities: Photorespiration for improved plant metabolism
Researchers from the EU-funded Gain4Crops project have now succeeded in engineering a solution that connects photorespiration and C4 metabolism, two ...
Swiss farmers contributed to the domestication of the opium poppy
Credit: Raül Soteras, AgriChange Project Fields of opium poppies once bloomed where the Zurich Opera House underground garage now stands. ...
How cooperative root graft networks help trees under stress
Credit: Alejandra Vovides The fact that the roots of trees of the same or even different species grow together and ...
Indigenous co-management essential for protecting, restoring Bears Ears region
Credit: Pavlik et al. (2021) PNAS Indigenous people have lived in the Bears Ears region of southeastern Utah for millennia. ...
New tools needed to prevent plant disease pandemics
Plant disease surveillance, detection can preserve food securityCredit: NC State University Plant diseases don't stop at a nation's borders and ...
Slow research to understand fast change
Forty years of experiments, observation, modeling and theory may be just what's needed to see where the world is headedCredit: ...
Terpen-tales: The mystery behind the unique fragrance of the lovely lavender
Scientists explain the genetics of what makes the smell of lavender specialCredit: Horticulture Research Even the mention of lavender evokes ...
New cyanobacteria species spotlights early life
Anthocerotibacter panamensis, a newly discovered species of cyanobacteria, can help researchers study the dawn of oxygenic photosynthesisCredit: Fay-Wei Li ITHACA, ...
The first frost is the deepest
Credit: John Innes Centre The first frost of autumn may be grim for gardeners but the latest evidence reveals it ...
Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition
Credit: Image courtesy of Vaxa, Iceland. Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and ...
Symbiotic bacteria in root cells may be key to producing better crops, Rutgers study finds
Credit: Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, N.J. (May 12, 2021) - A Rutgers study finds that symbiotic bacteria that colonize ...
Polypharmakos and CABI to develop new antimicrobial products from CABI Culture Collection
Polypharmakos Limited, a spin-out company from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and University of Cambridge, and international not-for-profit organisation CABI ...
New USask research will make bean crops hardier, help improve global food security
Tepary bean genome may lead to sustainable alternatives for legume crops affected by changing climateCredit: Debra Marshall Photography SASKATOON - ...
Researchers reveal how PIF proteins regulate cytokinesis
Credit: WANG Lei To protect their newly formed fragile organs, dark-grown dicotyledonous plants form an apical hook when penetrating through ...
Lichens slow to return after wildfire
Frequent fire narrows recovery window for lichens in Chaparral shrublandsCredit: Jesse Miller Lichen communities may take decades -- and in ...
