Plant Sciences

The plant and animal kingdoms are rich in odours that function as key communication modules; have the herbivores learnt to, 'smell' these chemicals and counteract?Credit: Enakshi Ghosh The plant and animal kingdoms are rich in odours that…

Credit: Dr. Antony Dodd Dr Antony Dodd, Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences and senior author of the paper, said: "This proof of concept research suggests that, in future, we might be able to refine the use of…

Credit: Natalia Bateman, CoETP Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production. They discovered that producing more of a…

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - August 15, 2019 - A biologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has shown that a key biological component in a worm's communication system can be repurposed to take on…

From within the genetic diversity of wild teosinte - the evolutionary ancestor of modern maize -valuable traits lay hidden. In searching the ancestral genome, researchers report the discovery of UPA2, a rare allele long-lost to the…

Study published as farmers grapple with dicamba volatility concernsCredit: Ginger Rowsey KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture study published in the Journal of Weed Technology found that mixing glyphosate…

A group of researchers from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen have figured out how to use deep learning to speed up the analysis of gas chromatographic dataCredit: Morten Vormsborg Christiansen Gas…

Credit: Marina Franceshetti and Phil Robinson Researchers have uncovered an unusual protein activity in rice that can be exploited to give crops an edge in the evolutionary arms race against rice blast disease, a major threat to rice…

Goal is to increase efficiency of photosynthesis With world population projected to exceed eight billion people by 2025, food security is already a pressing global problem. Part of the solution will come from efforts to increase the yields…

Team is working on techniques to produce useful compounds from wood and other fast growing non-edible plant waste, through a chemical process named xylochemistryCredit: Wits University A team of international scientists has found an…