How Plants Fine-Tune Their Water Channels to Survive Drought, Salt and Toxic Metals
A new review in Stress Biology details how plants regulate aquaporin water channels through stress-responsive transcription factors and rapid post-translational ...
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Scientists Track Down the Genes That Let Maize Survive Drought in China’s Arid Northwest
A genome-wide study of 202 maize inbred lines has uncovered 158 genetic variants linked to drought tolerance and grain yield, ...
Rice Leaves Sound the Alarm Within Minutes: New Map Reveals How Wounds Rewire Plant Defenses
A time-series transcriptome study reveals that rice mounts a rapid, two-phase genetic defense after wounding, driven by jasmonate and peptide ...
Dopamine Doubles as a Salt Shield and a Steroid Booster in Fenugreek
New research shows that exogenous dopamine protects fenugreek from salt stress while boosting diosgenin production nearly fourfold, offering a dual ...
Cold Stratification Unlocks Seed Germination by Disabling the RGL2/ABI5 Repression Switch
New research shows that cold stratification breaks seed dormancy in Arabidopsis by triggering gibberellin biosynthesis and uncoupling the RGL2/ABI5 repressor ...
Sunflower Genes Could Hold the Key to Climate-Proof Crops in the World’s Driest Farmlands
A new review argues that sunflower's remarkable tolerance to combined drought, heat, salt, and pathogen stress makes it a powerful ...
Rotten-Egg Gas Helps Okra Beat Salt Stress Through a Hidden Hormonal Circuit
A new study shows that a hydrogen sulfide donor protects salt-stressed okra seedlings by activating an internal H2S-abscisic acid signaling ...
Salt-Tolerant Synthetic Rice Reveals Hormone Rewiring After Genome Duplication
A new study shows that rare transgressive salt tolerance in synthetic tetraploid rice arises through post-polyploidization regulatory rewiring of abscisic ...
Bacterial Polymer-Boosted Gene Helps Cotton Survive Drought Through Hormone Signaling
Chinese researchers have identified the cotton gene GhJAZ8 as a key positive regulator of drought tolerance that mediates the protective ...
Splicing Factor BRR2a Keeps Plant Stress Genes Silent Until Trouble Hits
New research shows the essential splicing factor BRR2a doubles as a repressor that keeps stress-inducible genes silent in Arabidopsis until ...
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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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