A new scientific study has demonstrated that plants growing from the same seeds have the natural tendency of avoiding competitions with each other. Furthermore, they were shown to collaborate in a way that was not obvious when the “family” had to duel other plants for survival. The scientists, based at th... |
15 October 2009
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Modeling nature and the interactions that take place within ecosystems is one of the most complex and demanding tasks that scientists working in this field of research have. Performing complex studies in nature to look at ecosystems is not always possible, because the methods would be either unethical (removing an an... |
11 August 2009
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Biologists have been attempting to create a catalog containing the most relevant genetic traits of all plant species for quite some time now, but the effort, which proved to be relatively simple in the case of animals, turns out to be rather complicated. Identifying the most unique traits in similar plant species is ... |
28 July 2009
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Since our planet was first created some 4.5 billion years ago, numerous things had to fall in place for life to appear. And when it did, it apparently not only spread, but broke out with incredible power and energy. Of course, there were hitches along the road, some of them major (five clearly established extinction ... |
9 July 2009
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In a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers from the University of California in Davis (UCD), working together with colleagues from Denmark and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), have discovered a group of proteins in plants that... |
29 June 2009
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In their travels around the world, to places no one had gone before, old-era naturalists were amazed to discover enormous plant species in the tropical regions, and in other exotic places, and they could not explain why this was happening. Now, researchers have managed to finally elaborate a theory that explains why ... |
24 June 2009
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Cellulose is one of the most promising materials for creating biofuels, and also the key ingredient in plants. It's the basic component of cellular walls, as well as the substance that gives plants shape. But, until now, researchers have been in the dark about how it gets to the place where it's needed. Tha... |
15 June 2009
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Until recently, evidence that plants were able to recognize each other, and cooperate for their mutual benefit has been scarce and controversial, mostly because a lot of people cannot accept the fact that it doesn't take a brain to want to ensure your survival as a species. But recent experiments, conducted on t... |
2 June 2009
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Researchers from the University of Leicester and the Oxford University have recently made an amazing discovery, one that carries very important implications for the way human kind will be able to grow plants after global warming increases worldwide temperatures beyond the thresholds the latter are now accustomed to. ... |
30 March 2009
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Genetic researchers have managed to come across a significant breakthrough in the field, after they identified a plant, namely the mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), which contains in its DNA a sequence that is strikingly similar to that found in the genetic information of people suffering from serious diseases ... |
20 January 2009
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The goal of carbon cycle research is to find out exactly how much carbon is being trapped in plants and on ocean floors, so as to safely say how much carbon can be emitted at any given time. But such scientific endeavors have been fruitless until now, seeing how experts couldn't measure the exact quantities of t... |
17 November 2008
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Well, that settles it. When you want to make your employees unhappy just put them in an environment with artificial light only and no windows and take away their greens - plants, that is. According to a study led by Tina Cade from the Texas State University and Andrea Dravigne of the San Marcos Nature Center, the pre... |
21 May 2008
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Some plants require constant gardening. And since spring is already here, maybe some of you would like to make a love statement to your plants. This device may be exactly what you need. The New York Times Garden Expert is a user-friendly PDA with a pseudo-LCD screen that contains over 1000 gardening-related question... |
2 May 2007
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