Tag: plant

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) and the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a ...

Genes contain all the instructions an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. But identifying a gene and learning what ...

Biologist Xinnian Dong says her “best Christmas gift ever” arrived in the form of a phone call. The call was from her ...

With the extinction of large, non-flying dinosaurs 66 million years ago, large herbivores were missing on Earth for the subsequent ...

Two-pore channels (TPCs) are ancient ion channels present in the cells of both animals and plants. In animals, including humans, ...

As sessile organisms, plants have to continually adapt their growth and architecture to the ever-changing environment. To do so, plants ...

A plant virus that infects legumes, called cowpea mosaic virus, has a special power that you may not have known ...

Plants have been the primary source of our food for ages. With the human population growing rapidly, there is a ...

Pullman, Wash., April 25, 2022—A protein that allows the fungus which causes white mold stem rot in more than 600 ...

A unique confluence of archeology, molecular genetics and serendipity guided a collaboration of Mexican and Penn State researchers to a ...

Two University of Miami researchers were part of a team that rediscovered a tropical plant species believed to be extinct ...

Inspired by the turgor pressure features of plant cells, which allow plants to support their bodies, researchers modified a hydrogel ...

Philadelphia (April 1, 2022) — Researchers combined advanced computational methods with experimental studies to gain new insight, at the cell ...

Another diamond open-access, peer-reviewed journal - owned by Meise Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium - now ...

Associate Professor of Plant Ecology of the University of Tartu Marina Semchenko has won a prestigious grant from the European ...

Marcel Dicke (@DickeMarcel) already knew that insects are an excellent source of protein for humans, but he didn’t expect to ...

Plant viruses are of great variety and harm. Virus disease pandemics and epidemics were estimated to have a global economic ...

The U.S. fusion community has actively called for an immediate design effort for a cost-effective pilot plant to generate electricity ...

A research team in the Louisiana State University Department of Biological Sciences led by Assistant Professor Adam Bohnert has published a ...

A representative producer in aquatic ecosystems, duckweed yields sustainable biomass for animal feeds, human food, and biofuels. It also contributes ...