Grow or defend yourself – a decision plants need to make on a daily basis, due to their inability to do both simultaneously. For a long time, it was thought that the reason for the growth-defence trade-off might be a…
Tag: PLANT SCIENCES
The flavor of chocolate is developed during the processing of the cocoa beans
Can you manipulate the taste of noble cocoas in different directions to create exciting new flavors
Dangerous wild grass will be used in batteries
Scientists from NUST MISIS have turned hogweed into a material for a supercapacitor
Japanese trees synchronize allergic pollen release over immense distances
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) researchers visualized how allergic pollen fro
How plants measure their carbon dioxide uptake
When water is scarce, plants can close their pores to prevent losing too much water. This allows them to survive even longer periods of drought, but with the majority of pores closed, carbon dioxide uptake is also limited, which impairs…
Technique combats widespread passion fruit disease
Experiments performed in Brazil show that systematic eradication of plants contaminated by cowpea ap
Grant to develop drought-tolerant poplars for bioenergy
Bioenergy — growing crops that can be used to generate energy (and possibly refined into chemicals) could be an important tool for mitigating climate change. But bioenergy can be controversial if it takes land out of food production or affects…
New study: Migrating mule deer don’t need directions
How do big-game animals know where to migrate across hundreds of miles of vast Wyoming landscapes year after year? Among scientists, there are two camps of thought. First is that animals use local cues within their vicinity to determine where…
Research suggests glyphosate lowers pH of dicamba spray mixtures below acceptable levels
Study published as farmers grapple with dicamba volatility concerns
Green chemists find a way to turn cashew nut shells into sunscreen
Team is working on techniques to produce useful compounds from wood and other fast growing non-edibl
WPI biologist’s discovery gives evolution clues and may affect drug interaction research
Worcester, Mass. – August 15, 2019 – A biologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has shown that a key biological component in a worm’s communication system can be repurposed to take on a different job, a critical finding about the…
Gene variant in maize ancestor could increase yields in today’s densely planted fields
From within the genetic diversity of wild teosinte – the evolutionary ancestor of modern maize -valuable traits lay hidden. In searching the ancestral genome, researchers report the discovery of UPA2 , a rare allele long-lost to the selective pressures of…
New research could provide better food and faster analysis of blood tests
A group of researchers from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen have figu
Princeton scientists awarded grant to boost crop yields by adding algal organelle to plant
Goal is to increase efficiency of photosynthesis
‘Catcher of the rye’ method detects rye gluten proteins in foods
Gluten-free diets have been trendy for several years now, with adherents claiming that avoiding grains that contain the substance helps with weight loss or improves general health. However, for people with celiac disease, avoiding gluten is not a fad but…
Sticky proteins help plants know when — and where — to grow
New research uncovers a mechanism that keeps hormone auxin in its place