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Adaptable Button Mushroom Serves Up Genes Critical to Managing the Planet's Carbon Stores
October 8, 2012 — The button mushroom occupies a prominent place in our diet; in nature, Agaricus bisporus decays leaf matter on the forest floor. An international collaboration has determined the full repertoire of ... > full story -
Tree Nut Research May Unexpectedly Lead to Medical Advances
October 5, 2012 — Prescription drugs that today help patients fight severe fungal infections might tomorrow be even more effective, thanks to unexpected findings from agriculture-based, food-safety-focused ... > full story -
Potato Storage: Essential Oils as Antigerminants
October 5, 2012 — One of the critical moments in the final quality of the potato occurs during its storage, as there exists the risk of sprouting or rotting due to pathogenic agents such as bacteria and ... > full story -
A Laser as Mini-Scissors: Genetic Activity in the Entire Genome of Multicellular Fungi Analysed at a Stroke
October 1, 2012 — With a combination of microscopic laser scissors and modern sequencing methods, biologists have analyzed the activity of genes in the entire genome of certain fungi in one fell swoop. Especially with ... > full story -
Nothing to Sneeze At: Scientists Find Cheating Ragweed Behaves Better With Its Kin
October 1, 2012 — Cheating. Conflict. Competition. It may sound like a soap opera but this is the complex life of the despised ragweed plant. And in the highly competitive fight for nutrients, researchers have found ... > full story -
Nature's Misfits: Reclassifying Protists Helps Answer How Many Species Remain Undiscovered
September 27, 2012 — Since the Victorian era, categorizing the natural world has challenged scientists. No group has presented a challenge as tricky as the protists, the tiny, complex life forms that are neither plants ... > full story -
True Love Between Grass and Clover Leads to Richer Harvest
September 27, 2012 — Clover fixes atmospheric nitrogen, and plants growing nearby benefit. But does clover gain anything from its neighbors in return? Recent research reveals that, in mixed cropping, both nitrogen-fixing ... > full story -
Salt Seeds Clouds in the Amazon Rainforest: Researchers Track Down the Sources of Condensation Nuclei
September 10, 2012 — It's morning, deep in the Amazon jungle. In the still air innumerable leaves glisten with moisture, and fog drifts through the trees. As the sun rises, clouds appear and float across the forest ... > full story -
Treatment With Fungi Makes a Modern Violin Sound Like a Stradivarius
September 8, 2012 — A good violin depends on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of th Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials ... > full story -
DNA Sequences Need Quality Time, Too; Guidelines for Quality Control Published
September 5, 2012 — DNA sequence data have become an indispensable source of information in biology, finding diverse uses such as molecular species identification and the exploration of biodiversity in complex ... > full story
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