Plant Sciences

Credit: K. Koehler-Cole Cover crop impacts on soil properties depends on cover crop productivity. Planting cover crops early and in a diverse mix of species could be an option to boost biomass production and enhance benefits to…

The practice can create healthier soils, save water and yield more almondsCredit: Brent Holtz, UCANR Recycling trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop yields, making it a climate-smart practice for California's…

Credit: Jacynthe Dessureault-Rompre In many regions of the world, farming must be done on areas of soil categorized as histosols. Histosols have a thick layer of rich organic matter, called peat. Scientists are concerned,…

Credit: Bob Beschta, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Increasing numbers of bison in Yellowstone National Park in recent years have become a barrier to ecosystem recovery in the iconic Lamar Valley in the northern part of the park,…

Ethanol from agave could be used for transport fuel and hand sanitizerCredit: University of Sydney The agave plant used to make tequila could be established in semi-arid Australia as an environmentally friendly solution to…

Researchers investigate how forests are changing in response to global warming As the climate is changing, so too are the world's forests. From the misty redwoods in the west to the Blue Ridge forest of Appalachia, many sylvan ecosystems…

Credit: University of Exeter Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security. Currently, we protect our crops against fungal disease by spraying them with anti-fungal chemistries, also known as fungicides.…

CABBI researchers have developed three innovative tools to facilitate production of high-value compounds from yeast strain Issatchenkia orientalisCredit: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Biofuels Innovation (CABBI) Researchers…

The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today some $33 million USD to support the top 4% of the HFSP Research Grant applications over the coming three years. The 28 winning teams of the 2020…

Credit: Beverly J. Agtuca, Sylwia A. Stopka, Thalita R. Tuleski, Fernanda P. do Amaral, Sterling Evans, Yang Liu, Dong Xu, Rose Adele Monteiro, David W. Koppenaal, Ljiljana Paša-Toli?, Christopher R. Anderton,... Crop yields have…

Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University A new global study reveals the extent to which high-yielding rice varieties favored in the decades since the "Green Revolution" have a propensity to go feral, turning a staple food crop into a…

HFSP raises the value of its fellowship awards granted to 65 young researchers that will challenge traditional thinking by investigating behavioural computation, genomics of fear memories, the dynamics of the blood stem cell niche, or…

"We are living through an explosion in the availability of microbiome data," according to JP Dundore-Arias, assistant professor of plant pathology at California State University, Monterey Bay. "In agricultural systems, the proliferation…

Credit: David Stobbe for University of Saskatchewan Unlocking the full potential of cannabis for agriculture and human health will require a co-ordinated scientific effort to assemble and map the cannabis genome, says a just-published…

A new study reveals that plants and animals are remarkably similar in their responses to changing environmental conditions.Credit: John J. Wiens Despite fundamental differences in their biology, plants and animals are surprisingly similar…

Credit: Dr. Jose Fernandez-Triana With 3,000 known species and thousands more left to describe, the wasps of the subfamily Microgastrinae are the single most important group of parasitoids attacking the larvae of butterflies and moths,…

Curtin study looks at using DNA analysis as a tool for species biomonitoring Researchers from Curtin University have used next generation DNA sequencing to learn more about the different species of plants, insects and animals present in…

Scientists from the University of Sheffield use Peak District grassland to answer a globally important question The team discovered how a large variety of plants are able to grow in one ecosystem when it is low in key nutrients…

Credit: © Silva et al. / PNAS As average temperatures rise every year, it is no longer rare to see plants flower as early as February. Behind this phenomenon is a complex of proteins whose activity is controlled by temperature changes, as…

Credit: LIU Hui Given the fundamental biological differences in plants and animals, previous research proposed that plants may have broader environmental tolerances than animals but are more sensitive to climate. However, a recent study…