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Researchers Engineer Plant Cell Walls to Boost Sugar Yields for Biofuels
March 29, 2013 — Using the tools of synthetic biology, researchers are engineering healthy plants whose lignocellulosic biomass can more easily be broken down into simple sugars for the production of clean, green and ... > full story -
Gene Discovery May Yield Lettuce That Will Sprout in Hot Weather
March 29, 2013 — Plant scientists have identified a lettuce gene and related enzyme that put the brakes on germination during hot weather -- a discovery that could lead to lettuces that can sprout year-round, even at ... > full story -
Growing Plants on Mars
March 28, 2013 — Concrete plans for a one-way ticket to Mars have been forged. Food will have to be grown on location. Is this a distant future scenario? Not for scientists researching whether or not it is possible ... > full story -
Regulation Recommendations So That Biofuel Plants Don’t Become Weeds
March 26, 2013 — In the United States, only species listed on state or federal noxious weed lists are regulated, and those lists are often biased toward species that affect agricultural crops. Conversely, invasive ... > full story -
Novel Way Plants Pass Traits to Next Generation: Inheritance Behavior in Corn Breaks Accepted Rules of Genetics
March 26, 2013 — New research explains how certain traits can pass down from one generation to the next – at least in plants – without following the accepted rules of ... > full story -
Scientists Use DNA to Quickly Unravel Relationship Between Plants and Insects
March 25, 2013 — It can take years of direct observation for a researcher to fully understand the diets of a community of herbivorous insects in a tropical rain forest. Now, scientists are paving a fast track using ... > full story -
Peach Genome Offers Insights Into Breeding Strategies for Biofuels Crops
March 24, 2013 — Rapidly growing trees like poplars and willows are candidate "biofuel crops" from which it is expected that cellulosic ethanol and higher energy content fuels can be efficiently extracted. ... > full story -
When a Gene Is Worth Two: Same Gene Fulfills Different Biological Roles in Plants
March 22, 2013 — The notion that each gene can only codify for a single protein has been challenged for some years. Yet, the functional outcomes that may result from genes encoding more than one protein are still ... > full story -
Microalgae Could Be a Profitable Source of Biodiesel
March 21, 2013 — Dinoflagellate microalgae could be used as a raw material to obtain biodiesel easily and ... > full story -
In Triplicate, Genes Make Maize Tolerant to Toxic Soil
March 20, 2013 — Rendering some of the world’s toxic soils far less unfriendly, researchers are learning to grow stress-tolerant crops on formerly non-farmable ... > full story
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