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Evolved herbicide resistance driven by chemical usage
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 19 Mar 2018
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have identified factors which are driving the evolution…
Bees feeling blue for flowers
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 6 Dec 2017
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that flowers have nanoscale ridges tha…
Renewable energy branches out
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 4 Dec 2017
A team from the US have found a way to convert one of the World’s most abundant polymer – lignin –i…
Tree death causation revealed
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 31 Aug 2017
A cohort of scientists from the National Science Foundation in the US, have revealed how trees die …
Climate change affects forestry growth
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 27 Apr 2016
A link between tree growth and climate change has been established by Russian and Spanish scientist…
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 11 Feb 2016
Antarctic fungi have spent 18 months on the ISS, managing to survive under Mars-like conditions.
New breakthrough in crop science
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 5 Feb 2016
A gene amplification method has been shown to be successful at analysing the development of transge…
Marine life triggers atmospheric ice
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 1 Oct 2015
Marine life in remote ocean regions can contribute to airborne particles that trigger ice formation…
Caterpillars make leaves glow
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 18 Jun 2015
Scientists have discovered that plants release light energy in response to insect feeding.!--more--…
Too few unsung heroes
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 30 Jan 2014
The honeybee is the unsung hero of the countryside, but there are 13.4 million too few colonies to …
Aphids act as pawns to spread viruses
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 15 Jan 2014
Aphids have become the pawns of crop-infecting viruses which influence their host and force them to…
Plant scientists pick wrong model
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 30 Oct 2013
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists be…
Plant geometry secret revealed
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 25 Sep 2013
Researchers from the University of Leeds have discovered how plants set the angles of their branche…
Bacteria-coated seeds enable crops to fix nitrogen
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 10 Sep 2013
Technology developed at the University of Nottingham could enable all the world’s crops to take nit…
Watering your crops by phone
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 5 Aug 2013
A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use accor…
Why strawberries taste like strawberries
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 21 Jun 2013
Researchers have discovered what gives ripe strawberries their characteristic aroma.!--more-- Acco…
Flesh-eating plant discards DNA ‘junk’
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 7 Jun 2013
Scientists have spent decades puzzling over why noncoding DNA makes up the majority (98%) of the hu…
Quantum carotenoids shine light on photosynthesis
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 25 May 2013
The mechanism by which carotenoids help chlorophyll turn light into chemical energy has been uncove…
Turning cellulose into starch for new food source
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 1 May 2013
A potential food source can be created from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops sugge…
Gravity affects sex in plants
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 12 Apr 2013
Changes in gravity affect reproduction in plants, reveals a University of Montreal study. Their fin…
