Agriculture
Rice protein OsCBSX3 flips a molecular switch between growth and immunity
A redox-controlled monomer-to-oligomer switch in the rice protein OsCBSX3 tunes hydrogen sulfide production to balance immunity against bacterial blight with...
Forest Soils Outperform Farmland in Land Use Study of Southwest Nigeria
A new study combining multivariate statistics and GIS mapping shows that forest land maintains the highest soil fertility in Southwest...
Turkey’s Farms Defy the Environmental Kuznets Curve as Growth Lifts Agricultural Emissions
A new econometric study of Turkey from 1990 to 2021 finds that economic growth, financial development, renewable energy use, and...
Yeast-Free Steamed Bread: How Carbon Dioxide and Sodium Salts Team Up to Build the Perfect Dough
New research reveals that chemically leavened steamed bread quality depends on a coordinated partnership between carbon dioxide gas and sodium...
Chimera Crayfish With Two Genomes Stuns Scientists Studying Hybrid Offspring
Researchers in China report a rare chimera in the hybrid offspring of red swamp crayfish, with multiple genotypes coexisting in...
Ancient Spelt Wheat Hides a Near-Immune Rust Resistance Gene That Bread Wheat Silences
Researchers have discovered a novel adult-plant resistance locus in spelt wheat that confers near-immune, non-race-specific protection against stripe rust, but...
Timing Silicon Before Phosphorus Unlocks Locked-Up Nutrients in Tropical Soils
A Brazilian greenhouse study shows that applying silicon before or together with phosphate fertilizer boosts plant-available phosphorus in acidic tropical...
Molecular Switch Team Discovered That Decides When Rice Seeds Wake Up
Researchers have identified the OsRhoGAP2-OsRAC5 protein complex as a key regulator of rice seed germination, showing that it controls aleurone...
One Tube, Six Genes: Multiplex PCR Speeds Up Climate-Resilient Rice Breeding
Indian researchers have developed a cost-effective multiplex PCR assay that simultaneously tracks five rice genes for bacterial blight resistance, blast...
Drones and Attention-Powered AI Count Every Wheat Tiller From the Sky
Researchers in South Dakota combined drone multispectral imagery with an attention-enhanced deep learning model to estimate wheat tiller density with...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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