Agriculture
Hidden Potassium Reserves in Clay Soils Quietly Feed Crops and Upend Fertilizer Advice
A thirteen-month greenhouse experiment shows that potassium locked in clay minerals supplied up to 74 percent of alfalfa's uptake in...
Tiny RNA, Big Stakes: New miR65 Switch Governs How Alfalfa Survives Salty, Alkaline Soil
Researchers have identified a novel microRNA, miR65, that represses the transcription factor MsbZIP11 and acts as a key negative regulator...
Hidden Fungal Allies Could Save the World’s Mangroves From Rising Salt
A new study shows that a combined inoculum of Glomus and Gigaspora mycorrhizal fungi significantly boosts growth, photosynthesis and antioxidant...
Fungal Teams in Soil Defy Expectations, Reshaping Tomato Growth and Disease Defense
A high-throughput phenotyping study shows that mixtures of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi produce additive, synergistic, and antagonistic effects on tomato growth...
Two Endophytic Fungi Show Powerful Genome-Backed Defense Against Southern Corn Rust
Researchers in China have sequenced two endophytic fungi from maize that suppress southern corn rust by up to 87.9 percent...
New $100 collar sensor reveals what wildfire smoke does to wild animals
Colorado State University researchers have developed an open-source, $100 collar-mounted smoke logger that measures PM2.5 exposure in wild animals, revealing...
Hidden Salt in the Soil Shapes Which Trees Can Live Together in Subtropical Forests
High-resolution mapping in a subtropical Chinese forest reveals that patchy soil sodium is a dominant, previously overlooked driver of tree...
Johnsongrass Mosaic Virus Revealed as Widespread and Genetically Diverse in Ethiopian Forage Grasses
A large survey of Ethiopian forage grasses has detected johnsongrass mosaic virus in 249 accessions, identified fifteen previously unknown natural...
Boreal Forests Rewrite the Rules of Nitrogen Uptake Under Long-Term Deposition
A 15N tracer experiment in a Chinese Dahurian larch forest shows that long-term nitrogen addition reshapes how trees take up,...
GIS Mapping Reveals Where Bananas Thrive in Assam’s Goalpara District
A GIS-based multi-criteria analysis has mapped banana cultivation suitability across Assam's Goalpara district, identifying over 4,100 hectares of highly suitable...
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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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