Seed News

Posted February 25, 2011:

• Large Forest Animals Contribute to Plant Diversity

Posted February 24, 2011:

• Rare, Unique Seeds Arrive at Svalbard Vault, as Crises Threaten World Crop Collections

Posted February 23, 2011:

• New Path to Water-Efficient Seeds

Posted February 18, 2011:

• Multiple Approaches Necessary to Tackle World's Food Problems, Biologist Argues

Posted February 17, 2011:

• Plants Cloned as Seeds: Hybrids That Breed True Would Be Major Advance for Crop Plants

Posted February 16, 2011:

• Conservation of Whitebark Pine May Hinge on Preservation of Ponderosa

Posted February 11, 2011:

• Invasive Plants Can Create Positive Ecological Change

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Race Against Time to Find Apollo 14's Lost Voyagers: 'Moon Trees'

Posted February 7, 2011:

• New Findings in India's Bt Cotton Controversy: Good for the Field, Bad for the Farm?

Posted February 3, 2011:

• Advancing Biocrop Alternatives in the Pacific Northwest

Posted February 1, 2011:

• Biologists Discover 'Control Center' for Sperm Production; Study Uncovers Genetic Hierarchy in Plant Sperm Formation

Posted January 31, 2011:

• Plants Can Adapt Genetically to Survive Harsh Environments

Posted January 29, 2011:

• New Appreciation of the Ecology-Evolution Dynamic

Posted January 27, 2011:

• Smaller Rows Contribute to More Soybean Yields in Colder Climates
• Mechanism of Spring-Loaded Seed Launch Discovered

Posted January 26, 2011:

• 'Undead' May Influence Biodiversity, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Posted January 23, 2011:

• Nailing Down a Crucial Plant Signaling System
• Climate Change Threatens Many Tree Species

Posted January 21, 2011:

• Islands in the Sky: How Isolated Are Mountain Top Plant Populations?

Posted January 19, 2011:

• Like Humans, Amoebae Pack a Lunch Before They Travel
• Gardening in Space With HydroTropi

Posted January 18, 2011:

• 'NuMex Jalmundo' Introduced: New Jalapeño Pepper Perfect for Poppers

Posted January 7, 2011:

• Statistical Analysis Can Estimate Crop Performance

Posted January 3, 2011:

• Peptide Delivers One-Two Punch to Breast Cancer in Pre-Clinical Study
• Eating Low-Fat, Thanks to Lupin Proteins

Posted December 30, 2010:

• Potential Solutions to New England Roadside Erosion

Posted December 21, 2010:

• New Miscanthus Hybrid Discovery in Japan Could Open Doors for Biofuel Industry

Posted December 19, 2010:

• Weird and Wonderful Plant and Fungal Discoveries of 2010

Posted December 14, 2010:

• What 'Pine' Cones Reveal About the Evolution of Flowers

Posted December 9, 2010:

• Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: New Global Search to Save Endangered Crop Wild Relatives

Posted December 8, 2010:

• How Plants Near Chernobyl Shrug Off Radiation

Posted December 7, 2010:

• How Flowering Time of Plants Can Be Controlled

Posted December 6, 2010:

• Fledgling Ecosystem in Former Open-Pit Coal Mine in Germany Lets Scientists Observe How Soil, Flora and Fauna Develop

Posted November 30, 2010:

• Transgenic Crops: How Genes Jump from Crop to Crop
• Protecting Cereal Crops from Eyespot Fungal Disease

Posted November 29, 2010:

• DNA Evidence Supports a Coastal Northeastern Atlantic Glacial Refugium for a Boreal Tree Species

Posted November 18, 2010:

• New Disease-Resistant Food Crops Under Development

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics

Posted November 5, 2010:

• Beetles Offer Effective Weed Control, but Native Vegetation Hard to Re-Establish

Posted November 4, 2010:

• Pennycress Could Go from Nuisance Weed to New Source of Biofuel

Posted November 3, 2010:

• E. Coli Thrives Near Plant Roots, Can Contaminate Young Produce Crops
• How Some Plants Spread Their Seeds: Ready, Set, Catapult

Posted November 1, 2010:

• If GMO Genes Escape, How Will the Hybrids Do? Fitness and Growth of Sorghum, Shattercane, and Its Wild-Crop Hybrid in Nebraska

Posted October 29, 2010:

• Members of the Public to Research Bird, Bat and Insect Aerobatics

Posted October 27, 2010:

• Biodiversity and Poverty Reduction: Who Controls the Seeds?

Posted October 18, 2010:

• Mutation Over 100 Million Years Ago Led Flowers to Make Male and Female Parts Differently

Posted October 8, 2010:

• Environmental Changes to Blame for Drop in Yield of 'Miracle Rice'

Posted October 4, 2010:

• Scientists Complete Two-Year Study on Short-Day Onions

Posted September 30, 2010:

• Plants That Move: How a New Zealand Species Disperses Seeds in a High Alpine, Wet Environment

Posted September 27, 2010:

• Fungal Spores Travel Farther by Surfing Their Own Wind

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