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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 -
New Danish Fungal Species Discovered
September 4, 2012 — A new fungal species, called "Hebelomagriseopruinatum," has now officially been included in the list of species. The fungus, whose name can be translated into "the gray-dewy tear leaf," was ... > full story -
Plants' Fungi Allies May Not Help Store Climate Change's Extra Carbon
August 30, 2012 — Fungi found in plants may not be the answer to mitigating climate change by storing additional carbon in soils as some previously thought, according to plant ... > full story -
Researchers Feed Pigs, Chickens High-Protein Fungus Grown on Ethanol Leftovers
August 14, 2012 — A research team is feeding fungi grown on the leftovers of ethanol production to pigs and chickens. The feed-production process also cleans water used to make ethanol, boosting the amount of water ... > full story -
Differences in the Genomes of Related Plant Pathogens
August 12, 2012 — Even in closely related species, lifestyle molds the genetic makeup of pathogens and how their genes are ... > full story
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