All Botany
Tree death causation revealed
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.d | Added: 1 Oct 2015
Marine life in remote ocean regions can contribute to airborne particles that trigger ice formation…
Caterpillars make leaves glow
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.d | Added: 18 Jun 2015
Scientists have discovered that plants release light energy in response to insect feeding.!--more--…
Too few unsung heroes
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.d | Added: 21 Jun 2013
Researchers have discovered what gives ripe strawberries their characteristic aroma.!--more-- Acco…
Flesh-eating plant discards DNA ‘junk’
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.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
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.d | Added: 12 Apr 2013
Changes in gravity affect reproduction in plants, reveals a University of Montreal study. Their fin…
Chloroplasts could control crop ripening
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.d | Added: 24 Dec 2012
Biologists at Leicester University have discovered that a plant cell regulation process also affect…
Frankincense is not just for Christmas…
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.d | Added: 21 Dec 2012
Frankincense, the undeniable fragrance of Christmas, is in high demand but this means that many Bos…
Relief for hay fever sufferers: pollen-free house plants developed
qmcqmmjcbp.d qmcqmmjcbp.d | Added: 19 Sep 2012
Pollen-free plants can be produced by targeting two bacterial genes into the houseplant Pelargonium…