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May 16, 2024
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May 13, 2024 Scientists have established a system to generate clonal sex cells in tomato plants and used them to design the genomes of offspring. The fertilization of a clonal egg from one parent by a clonal sperm from another parent led to plants containing the ...
May 8, 2024 Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked role that small invertebrates play in ...
May 1, 2024 Scientists have discovered that calcium plays a significant role in enhancing the resistance of potato plants to bacterial ...
Apr. 30, 2024 Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of oil biosynthesis and found a way to genetically engineer a type of test plant to more efficiently produce different kinds of seed oil that it otherwise ...
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Apr. 22, 2024 New study finds microbes may influence the taste of mustard ...
Apr. 17, 2024 To make weeding easier, scientists suggest bioengineering crops to be colorful or to have differently shaped leaves so that they can be more easily distinguished from their wild and weedy ...
Apr. 16, 2024 According to a research team led by palaeontologists, the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering plants developed much earlier than ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Vitamin B1 is an essential micronutrient for human beings. Its deficiency is the cause of numerous diseases of the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Researchers have achieved a significant advance ...
Mar. 13, 2024 A new study has found that the summer solstice acts as a 'starting gun' to synchronize beech tree reproduction across vast distances in Europe, affecting ecosystem ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Rainforest seedlings are more likely to survive in natural forests than in places where logging has happened -- even if tree restoration projects have taken place, new research ...
Feb. 29, 2024 New research provides compelling evidence that partially substituting animal with plant protein foods can increase life expectancy and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Importantly, it also suggests ...
Feb. 21, 2024 The effects of a phenomenon called tree masting on ecosystems and food webs can be better understood thanks to new theoretical models validated by real world ...
Feb. 15, 2024 When the female gametes in plants become fertilized, a signal from the sperm activates cell division, leading to the formation of new plant seeds. This activation can also be deliberately triggered ...
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Feb. 14, 2024 While pesticides protect crops from hungry animals, pesky insects, or even microbial infections, they also impact other vital organisms, including bees and earthworms. And today, research reveals ...
Jan. 12, 2024 Some invasive plants can form persistent banks of seeds that remain under the soil for years, and this makes their eradication practically impossible. Over time, this invisible population of large ...
Jan. 10, 2024 Scientists studied the foraging habits of wild bees. Their findings can help guide seed and plant choices that support and enhance wild bee populations. In short, their research showed that different ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Scientists have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted in ...
Dec. 19, 2023 Early in the 1970s, paleontologists discovered strange fossilized fruits between hardened rock from one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth's history. The identity of these fossils ...
Dec. 5, 2023 Researchers have provided detailed maps of how 144 common invasive plants species will react to 2° Celsius of climate change in the eastern U.S., as well as the role that garden centers currently ...
Dec. 1, 2023 Some nonnative plants cultivated in public gardens or arboretums are escaping to become invasive in wild ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Playing an essential foundational role in an ecosystem, plants contribute to the well-being of human health by helping create resources like food and medicine. Therefore, to better understand how ...
Nov. 15, 2023 A new metal-organic coating protects bacterial cells from damage without impeding their growth or function. The coated bacteria, which produce ammonia, could make it much easier for farmers to deploy ...
Nov. 15, 2023 A genetic breakthrough has opened new opportunities for iron-fortified vegetables and cereal crops to help address the global health issue of ...
Nov. 6, 2023 Researchers have discovered several factors that affect field mouse behavior using seeds from dwarf bamboo plants, a plant that flowers once in a century. Their findings not only suggest the ...
Oct. 25, 2023 Opening a clamshell of berries and seeing them coated in fuzzy mold is a downer. And it's no small problem. Gray mold and other fungi, which cause fruit to rot, lead to significant economic ...
Oct. 25, 2023 While sea freight is recognised as a pathway for the movement of exotic organisms, there is little research that has quantified the risk. Soil collected from the external surfaces of sea freight was ...
Oct. 24, 2023 A research team has found that polysulfides are abundant in broccoli sprouts. They found that the amount of polysulfides increased dramatically during growth, by an approximately 20-fold in seeds by ...
Oct. 17, 2023 Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die. Doing so will allow us to better protect plants by choosing conservation targets more strategically, botanists ...
Oct. 11, 2023 DNA analysis of mummified feces reveals two pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures ate a wide variety of plants, like maize, sweet potato, and peanuts -- and tobacco and cotton traces were detected too, ...
Oct. 10, 2023 Relationship patterns among flightless stick insects suggest that birds disperse the eggs after eating gravid females. Lab experiments previously suggested the possibility, but a new genetic analysis ...
Oct. 4, 2023 Fossil researchers have discovered a novel genus and species of tiny wasp with a mysterious, bulbous structure at the end of each ...
Sep. 15, 2023 Tweaks to the mitochondrial genome hold the potential for better hybrid seed production or to introduce seedless ...
Sep. 1, 2023 Flowering for some plants is a yearly occurrence, for others, it is a once-in-a-lifetime event. A widespread species of bamboo in Japan, Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis, takes this one-time ...
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- Microbes Could Help Reduce the Need for Chemical Fertilizers
- Genetic Discovery Promises High-Iron Vegetables and Cereals
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- Sunflower Extract Fights Fungi to Keep Blueberries Fresh
- Soil Carried on Sea Freight Loaded With Dangerous Pests and Diseases, Research Finds
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- Plans to Plant Billions of Trees Threatened by Massive Undersupply of Seedlings
- Discovery of Key Genetic Sequence Essential for Plant Reproduction
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- New Technique Substantially Reduces Mouse Damage to Crops Even During Plagues
- Prescribed Burns Encourage Foul-Smelling Invaders
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- Simple Addition to Corn Bran Could Boost Grain's Nutritional Value 15-35%
- Nature's Chefs: Scientists Propose Food-Making as Means of Understanding Species Interactions
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- Rapid Plant Evolution May Make Coastal Regions More Susceptible to Flooding and Sea Level Rise, Study Shows
- How Salmon Feed Flowers and Flourishing Ecosystems
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- Farmers in China, Uganda Move to High-Yielding, Cost-Saving Perennial Rice
- Invasive Fruit Fly May Pose Threat to Forest Ecosystems
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- Soybean Virus May Give Plant-Munching Bugs a Boost in Survival
- Crops Grown Together 'cooperate' Better in Just Two Generations
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- Study Points to Armenian Origins of Ancient Crop With Aviation Biofuel Potential
- Birds Warned of Food Shortages by Neighbor Birds Change Physiology and Behavior to Prepare
- It Takes Three: The Genetic Mutations That Made Rice Cultivation Possible
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- New CRISPR-Combo Boosts Genome Editing Power in Plants
- Researchers Have Developed a Potential Super Wheat for Salty Soils