Endangered Plant News

Posted May 12, 2008:

• Tomato Stands Firm In Face Of Fungus

Posted May 10, 2008:

• Silicon's Effect On Sunflowers Studied

Posted May 9, 2008:

• Priority Regions For Threatened Frog And Toad Conservation In Latin America
• Seed Dispersal In Mauritius -- Dead As A Dodo?

Posted May 7, 2008:

• Rice Plants That Resist Uptake Of Arsenic Could Ease Shortage

Posted May 6, 2008:

• Understanding Plants' Coping Skills May Yield Tougher Plant Varieties
• New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private Lives Of Plants And Their Pollinators

Posted May 5, 2008:

• Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty
• Nitric Oxide Regulates Plants As Well As People

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Global Warming Linked To Caribou-calf Mortality
• Woody And Aquatic Plants Pose Greatest Invasive Threat To China

Posted April 30, 2008:

• Boost For 'Green Plastics' From Plants

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Nitric Oxide Regulates Plants As Well As People

Posted April 28, 2008:

• Tropical Reforestation Aided By Bats

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Insects Use Plants Like A Telephone
• Biodiversity Is Crucial To Ecosystem Productivity

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Organic Farming: Early-Flowering, Winter-Hardy Hairy Vetch Released For Northern United States

Posted April 24, 2008:

• Three Viruses Threaten Watermelon, Squash, Pumpkins, Cucumbers And Now Green Beans
• Transgenic Papaya Genome Draft Yields Many Fruits

Posted April 23, 2008:

• Analysis Of RNA Role In Spreading Disease Advances Study Of Damaging Plant Infections

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Hawaiian Plant, Thought To Be Newcomer, Actually Shaped Ecology Of The Islands From The Beginning

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Massive Study Of Madagascar Wildlife Leads To New Conservation Roadmap

Posted April 10, 2008:

• Gut Reaction: Cow Stomach Holds Key To Turning Corn Into Biofuel

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Faster Forage Crop Can Help Growers Beat Back Weeds

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Plants Grow Spindly When Reaching For Sunlight: Now Researchers Understand How
• Salt-tolerant Gene Found In Simple Plant Nothing To Sneeze At

Posted April 7, 2008:

• Genes Key To Hormone Production In Plants Identified
• Laurel Wilt Of Redbay And Sassafras: Will Avocados Be Next?

Posted April 6, 2008:

• Hairy Vetch Mulch Activates Genes For Phytonutrients In Tomatoes
• Darwin Was Right: Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Global Warming Holds New Threats For Australian Wildlife

Posted April 3, 2008:

• How Plants Fight Back Against Pathogens Using Complex Counter Attacks

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Specially-designed Soils Could Help Combat Climate Change
• China's Economic Boom Sparks Biological Invasions

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Electric Shocks Boost Plants' Production Of Commercially Useful Chemicals

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Faster Hawaiian Tree Growth Without Adverse Ecosystem Effects

Posted March 29, 2008:

• Can You Rescue A Rainforest? The Answer May Be Yes
• Systems Biology Approach Identifies Nutrient Regulation Of Biological Clock In Plants

Posted March 25, 2008:

• Cotton Studies Target Killer: Fusarium Wilt
• Insects Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Plants In A Higher Carbon Dioxide World
• Soybean Varieties Viable In Southern Indiana, Resistant To Root-knot Nematode

Posted March 24, 2008:

• Computers Show How Bats Classify Plants According To Their Echoes
• Plants Appear To Cluster The Genes Needed For Defense

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Can Cancer Causing Compounds Be Cut From Tobacco? Gene 'Knockout' Floors Tobacco Carcinogen

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Fungi Can Tell Us About The Origin Of Sex Chromosomes

Posted March 17, 2008:

• Crop Scientists Discover Gene That Controls Fruit Shape

Posted March 15, 2008:

• Harlequin Frog Rediscovered In Remote Region Of Colombia

Posted March 12, 2008:

• Breeding Heat-Tolerant Cotton

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