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 ...
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Silicon Helps Mung Bean Beat Salt Stress by Rewiring Roots, Genes and Proteins
A new integrated study shows that silicon supplementation helps salt-stressed mung bean plants by improving root architecture, ion balance, transporter ...
New Global Map Reveals Where Human Activity Drives Harmful Nutrient Levels in Coastal Waters
A new study led by Washington State University maps where human activities drive harmful nutrient levels in coastal waters, finding ...
Biochar, Water-Storing Polymers and Silicon Team Up to Shield Poplar Trees from Drought
A new study shows that combining biochar, superabsorbent polymer, and silicon in soil dramatically improves drought tolerance, growth, and photosynthesis ...
Squeezing Silicon: Uniaxial Pressure Emerges as a New Dial for Mapping Hidden Defect States
A new analytical model shows that uniaxial pressure can shift and reshape the spectrum of defect states in silicon, enabling ...
Simple Polymer Trick Boosts Silicon-Perovskite Photodetector Performance 170-Fold
By simply spin-coating a PEDOT:PSS interlayer twice instead of once, researchers boosted the photocurrent of a silicon-perovskite photodetector more than ...
Timing Silicon Before Phosphorus Unlocks Locked-Up Nutrients in Tropical Soils
A Brazilian greenhouse study shows that applying silicon before or together with phosphate fertilizer boosts plant-available phosphorus in acidic tropical ...
A Dash of Silicon Supercharges Vanilla Orchids Grown in the Lab
Mexican researchers report that silicic acid at low concentration boosts survival, growth, and chlorophyll in tissue-cultured vanilla orchids, while sodium ...
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 ...
GaAs Outshines Silicon in Polymer Solar Cells, Study Finds
A new study shows that substrate material and crystallographic orientation invert the performance ranking of PANI-based hybrid solar cells, with ...
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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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