Agriculture
Pakistan’s Hidden Plant Treasures: 940 Endemic Species Mapped in Landmark Review
A comprehensive new review has catalogued 940 endemic and sub-endemic plant taxa in Pakistan, revealing that the country's mountainous regions,...
Wild Relatives Hold the Genetic Keys to Future-Proof Crops, Review Finds
A new review argues that crop wild relatives hold vast untapped genetic diversity, but translating it into better cultivars requires...
One Year of Replanting Drains Soil Nutrients and Hands the Advantage to Fungal Pathogens in a Key Medicinal Herb
A controlled pot study shows that just one year of continuous cropping depletes potassium and nitrogen, suppresses soil dehydrogenase activity,...
RNA Fingerprints Could Finally Give Every Elite Tea Plant a Molecular ID Card
Chinese researchers have combined RNA sequencing, biochemical profiling, and SNP marker analysis to give elite tea breeding lines a verifiable...
Tiny Soil Bacteria Beat Urea in Boosting Mung Bean Yields, Study Finds
New research from Indonesia shows Rhizobium seed inoculation boosted mung bean yield and nodulation more consistently than increasing urea doses,...
Tea Cultivar Genetics Revealed as Hidden Driver of Fresh-Leaf Aroma Chemistry
A comparative metabolomics study of 20 Chinese tea cultivars shows that fresh leaves carry cultivar-specific, odor-active volatile fingerprints long before...
Pocket-Sized AI Delivers Full Rice Disease Diagnosis in Under 15 Milliseconds
A new knowledge distillation framework compresses three large neural networks into a 6.97 MB model that classifies rice diseases, localizes...
Silicon Gives Rice a Hidden Edge Against the Fall Armyworm, Study Finds
A new study shows that silicon accumulation in rice confers resistance to the fall armyworm by enabling a balanced transcriptional...
Scientists Discover a Gene That Pre-Arms Wheat Against Salt Stress
Researchers have identified the wheat gene TaSTG4B, which enhances salt tolerance by pre-arming antioxidant and photosynthetic defense pathways before stress...
Orchid Genome Study Uncovers 242 Enzyme Genes Behind Medicinal Compounds and Stress Survival
A genome-wide survey of Dendrobium nobile identifies 242 cytochrome P450 genes, including an orchid-specific subfamily linked to medicinal alkaloid production...
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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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