Fritillaria delavayi in a population with low harvest pressure. Credit: Yang Niu A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become less visible…
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Genes that give plant nucleus its shape discovered, also regulate copper tolerance. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have identified how the architecture of the…
Aerial view of a field study at the University of Illinois SoyFACE research facility that examined how cassava (a staple root crop) will adapt to…
The capacity of the Amazon forest to store carbon in a changing climate will ultimately be determined by how fast trees die – and what…
Specimens of the clover-like Medicago truncatula plant were each given an initial mixture of two strains of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Ensifer meliloti to learn what…
A recent study examining carbon storage in Pacific Northwest forests demonstrated that although large-diameter trees (21 inches) only comprised 3% of total stems, they accounted…
WUSCHEL proteins resist the viral invasion by inhibiting the protein assembly line of the plant stem cell. Credit: LIANG Yan, CHEN Lei Plants are able…
Progeny of novel combination is more vigorous and productive than parental plants. Novel grafted plants — consisting of rootstock epigenetically modified to “believe” it has…
Rubisco is the most abundant enzyme on the planet. Present in plants, cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae) and other photosynthetic organisms, it’s central to…
Researchers are fine-tuning the application of plasma to agriculture to speed up germination and help plants grow strong. Ever since scientists discovered that plasma treatment…
UBC Okanagan researchers say breadfruit is nutritionally sound and has the potential to improve worldwide food security issues. Credit: Jan Vozenilek, Copper Sky Productions, Kelowna…
The study is the first to measure vegetation changes across the Arctic tundra, from Alaska and Canada to Siberia, using satellite data from Landsat, a…
With backpack vacuums, the research team went looking for nonnative plant seeds on air-intake grilles of refrigerated shipping containers — and found thousands of them.…
Experimental drought shelter near Hays, Kansas. Credit: Alan Knapp Almost 100 years ago, there was a strange, slow-motion takeover of the Great Plains. During the…
The African baobab tree has 168 chromosomes in total. USDA researchers used fluorescent probes to see the genetic components of individual chromosomes within the cells.…
The stylized yeast cells depicted in several leaves and flower petals are an artist’s interpretation of how scientists, using the tools of synthetic biology, genetically…
PhenoChip- a microfluidic device for the single cell phenotyping of unicellular phototrophs such as microalgae and cyanobacteria. Credit: Lars Behrendt Novel technology for the selection…
Caption: Left to right: Florentino Tunquipa who discovered and excavated the fossil tree on his land, Rodolfo Salas Gismondi, Carlos Jaramillo, Julia Tejada, Federico Moreno,…
Microscopic image of Tuber luomae, a truffle species recently described by Oregon State University researchers. Credit: Oregon State University As a first-year graduate student studying…
A 23-million-year-old leaf preserved in a onetime New Zealand lake bed, key to past atmospheric conditions. One can see veins, glands along the teeth, and…