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Tomatoes: The World's Favorite Fruit, Only Better-Tasting and Longer-Lasting
May 23, 2013 — Research with GM purple tomatoes could lead to improved varieties of tomatoes with consumer and commercial benefits through conventional breeding or GM. The findings could also be applied to other ... > full story -
New Target to Boost Plant Resistance to Insects and Pathogens Identified
May 23, 2013 — Plants have evolved unique and sophisticated immune systems to defend themselves against insects and pathogens. Plant hormones called jasmonates play an important role in this defense, but jasmonates ... > full story -
White Tiger Mystery Solved: Coat Color Produced by Single Change in Pigment Gene
May 23, 2013 — White tigers today are only seen in zoos, but they belong in nature, say researchers reporting new evidence about what makes those tigers white. Their spectacular white coats are produced by a single ... > full story -
Bittersweet: Bait-Averse Cockroaches Shudder at Sugar
May 23, 2013 — Sugar isn't always sweet to German cockroaches. In a new study, researchers show that glucose sets off bitter receptors in roach taste buds, causing roaches to avoid foods that bring on this ... > full story -
Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic Offers Clues to Possible Life on Mars
May 23, 2013 — The recent discovery of a bacterium that is able to thrive at minus 15 degrees Celsius, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, is exciting because it offers clues about some of ... > full story -
Serengeti Road Divides Biologists: Will a Road Across the Northern Tier of Serengeti National Park Ruin It?
May 23, 2013 — Serengeti National Park in Tanzania may be the most iconic national park in the world. Here, lions, leopards, elephants, hippos and giraffes wander free. Rivers of wildebeests, zebra and Thompson's ... > full story -
What the Smallest Infectious Agents Reveal About Evolution
May 23, 2013 — Radically different viruses share genes and are likely to share ancestry, according to new research. The comprehensive phylogenomic analysis compares giant viruses that infect amoeba with tiny ... > full story -
Thinking 'Big' May Not Be Best Approach to Saving Large-River Fish
May 22, 2013 — Large-river specialist fishes -- from giant species like paddlefish and blue catfish, to tiny crystal darters and silver chub -- are in danger, but researchers say there is greater hope to save them ... > full story -
Pinpointing How Nature's Benefits Link to Human Well-Being
May 22, 2013 — What people take from nature -- water, food, timber, inspiration, relaxation -- are so abundant, it seems self-evident. Until you try to quantitatively understand how and to what extent they ... > full story -
New Cave-Dwelling Arachnids Discovered in Brazil
May 22, 2013 — Two new species of cave-dwelling short-tailed whipscorpions have been discovered in northeastern Brazil, and are described in new ... > full story
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