Botanists have identified key regulatory networks controlling how plants grow ‘outwards,’ which could help us to grow trees to be more efficient carbon sinks and increase vegetable crop yields. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: plants
New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
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•New technology could use carbon dioxide captured from power plants to make a new kind of lithium battery. …read more Source:: Science
Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances
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•Botoniest reveal reveal how glutamate, an abundant neurotransmitter in animals, activates a wave of calcium when a plant is wounded — the best look yet at the communication systems within …read more Source:: Science
Those fragrances you enjoy? Dinosaurs liked them first
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•The compounds behind the perfumes and colognes you enjoy have been eliciting olfactory excitement since dinosaurs walked the Earth amid the first appearance of flowering plants, new research reveals. …read more Source:: Science
E. coli tailored to convert plants into renewable chemicals
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•Jet fuel, pantyhose and plastic soda bottles: all three could be made from bioengineered bacteria. …read more Source:: Science
A vaccine for edible plants? A new plant protection method on the horizon
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•Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants such as cereals. A new project is shedding light on the efficacy of …read more Source:: Science
Newly discovered hormone helps keep plants from dehydrating
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•Researchers have discovered a small hormone that helps plants retain water when none is available in the soil. The study shows how the peptide CLE25 moves from the roots to …read more Source:: Science
Solving Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’: How flowering plants conquered the world
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•Researchers have found that flowering plants have small cells relative to other major plant groups, made possible by a greatly reduced genome size, and this may explain how they became …read more Source:: Science
Agricultural parasite takes control of host plant’s genes
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•Dodder, a parasitic plant that causes major damage to crops in the US and worldwide every year, can silence the expression of genes in the host plants from which it …read more Source:: Science
Amazon farmers discovered the secret of domesticating wild rice 4,000 years ago
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•Amazonian farmers discovered how to manipulate wild rice so the plants could provide more food 4,000 years ago, long before Europeans colonized America, archaeologists have discovered. …read more Source:: Science