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Two Species Fused to Give Rise to Plant Pest a Few Hundred Years Ago
July 3, 2012 — A fungal species native to Iran which attacks grasses is the result of natural hybridization that occurred just a few hundred years ... > full story -
Study on Fungi Helps Explain Coal Formation and May Advance Future Biofuels Production
June 28, 2012 — The evolution of white rot fungi might have helped bring an end to the geologic period characterized by the formation of large coal deposits, and may help lay the groundwork for the future production ... > full storyMore: -
Eating Garbage: Bacteria for Bioremediation
June 25, 2012 — A 150-foot-high garbage dump in Colombia, South America, may have new life as a public park. Researchers have demonstrated that bacteria found in the dump can be used to neutralize the contaminants ... > full story -
Rice Blast Infection Mechanism Uncovered
June 21, 2012 — Scientists have made a new discovery that they hope might lead to effective control of rice blast disease. Rice blast is the most serious disease of cultivated rice and affects all the rice-growing ... > full story -
Antitumour Proteins Identified in the Latex of the Plant Euphorbia Trigona
June 21, 2012 — Scientists have identified, isolated and characterized anti-tumor proteins present in the latex of the plant Euphorbia ... > full story -
Preserved Frogs Hold Clues to Deadly Pathogen
June 20, 2012 — A graduate student has developed a novel means for charting the history of a pathogen deadly to amphibians ... > full story -
Bugs Have Key Role in Farming Approach to Storing CO2 Emissions
June 15, 2012 — Tiny microbes are at the heart of a novel agricultural technique to manage harmful greenhouse gas ... > full story -
Voicemail Discovered in Nature: Insects Receive Soil Messages from the Past
June 12, 2012 — Insects can use plants as "green phones" for communication with other bugs. A new study now shows that through those same plants insects are also able to leave "voicemail" messages in the soil. ... > full story -
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Long-Ignored Enzyme Turns out to Be Key to Killing Infectious Bacteria
June 11, 2012 — New research shows that an enzyme that has long been considered relatively useless to the immune response instead has an important role in setting up immune cells to kill infection-causing ... > full story -
Microbes Discovered in Extreme Environment on South American Volcanoes
June 8, 2012 — Scientists looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few living on volcanoes that reaching nearly 20,000 feet in ... > full storyMore:
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