Studying Stress One Factor at a Time Misleads Biology, Plant Scientist Argues
University of Missouri scientist Ron Mittler is urging biologists to study organisms under multiple simultaneous stressors, arguing that combined stresses ...
Tag: crop resilience
Coastal Monkeyflowers Reveal How Wild Plants Survive Lethal Salt Spray
Michigan State University researchers have shown that coastal yellow monkeyflowers keep roughly thirty percent less sodium in their leaves than ...
Silicon Helps Wheat Beat Salt Stress, But Only in the Right Cultivar and Form
A large factorial glasshouse study shows silicon supplementation can cut sodium accumulation and rescue salt-stressed wheat growth, but only when ...
How Silicon Helps a Hardy Millet Beat Salt Stress at the Gene Level
A transcriptomic study reveals how silicon supplementation reprograms antioxidant defense, carbon metabolism and hormone biosynthesis to help finger millet tolerate ...
Foliar Hormone Spray Helps Wheat Withstand Nanoplastic Pollution, Study Finds
Foliar sprays of the plant hormone 24-epibrassinolide help wheat tolerate polyethylene nanoplastic contamination by reprogramming root metabolism and restructuring the ...
Scientists Engineer Stachyose Production in Maize to Boost Heat Stress Tolerance
Scientists engineered maize to produce stachyose by introducing an Arabidopsis stachyose synthase gene, extending the raffinose family oligosaccharide pathway and ...
How Plants Turn Stress Into Survival: Hormone, Kinase and Metabolite Networks Revealed
A new review in Plant Molecular Biology maps how phytohormone signaling, kinase cascades, and transcription factors drive secondary metabolite production ...
Early Heat Waves Hit Wheat Yields Hardest but Prime Crops to Withstand Later Heat
New field research shows wheat suffers greater yield losses from heat waves before flowering than after, yet early heat exposure ...
Silicon’s Role in Enhancing Plant Resilience: From Roots to Shoots
Researchers from Okayama University in Japan have made a groundbreaking discovery in the understanding of silicon uptake in crops, particularly ...
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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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