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Rice University scientists discovered in a new study that plants begin their preparations for the day's battle with hungry insects even before the Sun comes up. They studied a case where the plants were getting ready to fend off hungry caterpillars.
Researches such as this are conducted in order to gain a bette... |
14 February 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) are making considerable progress in understanding the way plants grow, from the roots up. Their goal is to develop crops that are more productive, and less prone to being decimated by microorganisms and other plagues.
UWM plant physiologist Edgar Spalding and his... |
13 February 2012
08:06 GMT |
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Tending to a garden is often considered one of the most fulfilling recreational activities. However, gardening can be quite a challenge, especially for those people living in small apartments located in dense urban areas.
Gifted architects work in favor of nature fans, highlighting the close connection between huma... |
13 January 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Tending the garden is the one of the most common dreams shared by many people, keen fans of nature and its natural resources. Unfortunately, those who live in urban, populous areas have been unable to enjoy this experience so far, but things are about to change as portable mini gardens might become the hottest new ... |
25 November 2011
07:37 GMT |
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One of the most interesting new lines of research in botany is the quest to understand how plants respond to external stimuli and actions, such as for example the force of gravity, touch and wind. Researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) lead the way in such studies.The discovery of mechanosensiti... |
22 October 2011
07:09 GMT |
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Investigators at the Brown University have recently determined in a new study that plants may not be entirely helpless in the face of climate change, as many previously thought. While animal species can move to new environments, vegetation apparently prefers to adapt its genetic code to face challenges.
As global ... |
7 October 2011
03:23 GMT |
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According to the first investigation of its kind, it would appear that most of the world's “missing” plant species that experts have been unable to find until now are concentrated right under our noses, inside the world's renowned biodiversity hotspots. The study unveiled equally good and bad ne... |
5 July 2011
10:25 GMT |
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With the aid of a £82 million grant from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, in the United Kingdom, about 120 researchers and experts will soon begin to analyze all stages of plant development in the newly-inaugurated Sainsbury Laboratory. The main goal of the new facility is to understand how plants develop from... |
4 July 2011
07:44 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency have recently revealed an interesting, high-detail map depicting the fluorescence produced by our planet's landmass-based plants. The optical emissions come from plants, and are a byproduct of a natural phenomenon called photosynthesis.Through it, plants convert carbon dioxid... |
7 June 2011
07:39 GMT |
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Investigators from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) say that plants may have once had a complex immune system, just like our own. The only difference was that theirs was in the ground. The team in California determined that plants used to defend themselves ... |
6 May 2011
08:06 GMT |
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Everyone's talking these days about the huge disaster that hit Japan last Friday, the very powerful earthquake followed by a strong tsunami wave seriously affecting the northeastern part of Japan and, consequently, all of the companies who had plants established in the respective region.And that's also the ... |
14 March 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, as the world became more connected, investigators noticed a rise in the incidence of cases of invasive plant species taking up residence in new habitats, and starting to exert a complete dominance over these ecosystems.But there is an intrinsic contradiction in all of this. Native species h... |
2 February 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of California, Davis, have conducted a study that contradicts the popular belief that plants move uphill as the temperatures become warmer.Most forecasts say that climate change will determine many plants and animal species to migrate and eventually become extinct.These predi... |
21 January 2011
05:51 GMT |
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University of Texas at Austin scientists wandered how plants knew when winter was over, so that they could bloom in spring, and their research led them to a special molecule that helps plants remember winter.They carried out their work on the Arabidopsis plant, and they found the way that blooming works.During fall, ... |
8 December 2010
05:16 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States recently made a breakthrough in the field of genetics, when they identified a gene that, once acted upon, allows specific plants to grow incredibly fast. The new discovery can be applied to switchgrass, Miscanthus species and other biofuel crops, which means that one of the ... |
7 December 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Researchers have begun taking a keen interest lately in a species of plant that is believed to be the oldest blooming flower in the world. Its origins can be traced directly to the earliest flowers that appeared on Earth, some 130 million years ago.The most ancient flowering plant still alive today is called Amb... |
26 November 2010
06:05 GMT |
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Biologists now estimate that the last common ancestor between animals and plants lived more than a billion years ago, but they say that the two classes of lifeforms have maintained similar mechanisms of detecting pathogens such as microbes, bacteria and eukaryotes.These organisms are a tremendous threat to both plant... |
20 November 2010
03:58 GMT |
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For countless centuries, people have been using plants as natural remedies for a wide range of disease, and some of the compounds found in nature proved to be very effective. Now, researchers are engineering plants that can produce unnatural variants of the drugs they usually create.This could be of great importance ... |
4 November 2010
05:30 GMT |
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The way that stock markets seem to react to crisis is just like plants and animals do, a new major study that could one day predict future financial events, suggests.The research was carried out by a team of academics led by Alexander Gorban, a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leicester, and incl... |
3 November 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) say that they have just awarded a total of 28 new grants to various research groups, as part of the 13th year of investigations for the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP).This long-term research initiative is aimed at gaining more insight into the structure and ... |
27 October 2010
09:29 GMT |
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Researchers say that plants with potential applications in biofuel production, such as the grass Miscanthus, could also fulfill another function, and namely trap carbon dioxide underground.In this respect, the plant would basically be acting like a carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, whose job is to clean sm... |
27 October 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Researchers with a new study have determined that it is possible, in theory, to use collapsible greenhouses to feed astronauts traveling to the Moon or Mars. The team says that these constructs could be designed in such a manner that they respond to the specific conditions on the surface of the planets or moon were t... |
19 October 2010
08:37 GMT |
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Who knew that prisoners could demonstrate so much care for nature? A team of researchers is working with inmates to study prairie plants, which are grown inside a correctional facility. The offenders are asked to plant the seeds, observe the way the plants grow, and then write all the data down in tables, for process... |
18 October 2010
06:51 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, scientists were able to observe the formation of microtubules inside living plant cells for the first time. The finding may have significant implications for agriculture. The formation of microtubules is a fundamental process of cellular biology, and one that has not been readily observ... |
11 October 2010
06:18 GMT |
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A new research carried out by Esther Schnettler, for her doctorate at Wageningen University, Wageningen UR, suggests that besides antibodies and interferons, humans also might have an immune system that looks very much like that of plants.She worked with Professor Ben Berkhout's group, of the Academic Medical Ce... |
27 September 2010
08:12 GMT |
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A team of researchers managed to identify a possible evolutionary root for the sunflower family, whose origins have until now eluded detection. The fossilized plant was discovered in northern Argentina.Experts who got a chance to look at the artifact say that it is more than 45 million years old, and that it may very... |
24 September 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Researchers have discovered that a type of religious ritual taking place in Mexico is having a direct effect on the fish population on which it is applied. In the southern parts of the country, indigenous populations believe, as they did for centuries, that they must ask the gods for sufficient amounts of rain throug... |
13 September 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Arsenic is one of the most commonly occurring natural poisons that appear inside plants around the world, and a team of experts believes that it may have just discovered two genes that are responsible for allowing for this to happen. Food-based arsenic is a major public health concern in numerous countries, and is no... |
13 September 2010
09:19 GMT |
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New satellite data shows that carbon storage by plants is decreasing, in spite of the climate warming, say ecologists Maosheng Zhao and Steve Running at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, in a paper published today in Science.Normally, as temperatures rose during the last decades, so did the amount of ca... |
20 August 2010
08:52 GMT |
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If you really stop to think about it, setting up a colony on Mars would suffer most from lack of food, as everything would have to be hauled there from Earth. But this obstacle would disappear if crops were to be grown on the Red Planet directly.The idea may seem farfetched at first, but it's really not. Natural... |
18 August 2010
11:11 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking achievement, experts at the Colorado-based company Gevo managed to develop a new technique of transforming plant scraps and waste into butanol. This compound is heralded as an alternative to conventional, fossil fuel-derived products such as gasoline, and the new achievement is therefore extremely... |
9 August 2010
04:09 GMT |
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It's no secret that one of the main selection mechanisms of evolution is competition. Within the same species, or between related species, competition is what drives the survival of the fittest, and the main source of potential mates for animals looking to produce offspring. Emerging from skirmishes unscathed is... |
12 May 2010
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As common knowledge has it, plants and oceans are the main engines that absorb the dangerous greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from our planet's atmosphere. Increased concentrations of the gas have been linked to the global warming effect that causes climate change, and so caring for Earth's natural ... |
5 May 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Researchers in Scandinavia have recently found that a particular type of birch tree has learned the advantages of cooperation in order to put itself out of harm's way. It is apparently able to secret chemicals that are the signature of the neighboring marsh tea plant called Rhondodendron tomentosum, a feat, whic... |
10 March 2010
19:11 GMT |
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In the Victorian epoch, a large number of aristocrats in the United Kingdom purchased Japanese knotweed from the Far East, in a bid to decorate their homes and gardens with more exotic plants. The plan soon backfired, as the knotweed soon moved out of gardens, and into the wild. Since then, they have been spreading a... |
9 March 2010
09:42 GMT |
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Researchers at the Purdue University have recently demonstrated a genetic link between plants and humans. They showed that injecting a protein crucial to cancer development had the ability to revive dying plants, thus making it potentially easier to study the disease in the future. The new investigation was conducted... |
16 February 2010
06:12 GMT |
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In a new paper appearing in the March issue of the respected Journal of General Virology, Japanese researchers from the Saga University reveal some of the secrets associated with how viral agents are able to move past the species barrier. This ability implies that viruses infecting one type of mammal can, for example... |
12 February 2010
16:11 GMT |
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In addition to threatening the low-lying coasts of the world, and bringing about climate changes that would instill extreme weather patterns, global warming will also change water patterns, the way in which land is used, as well as the amount of precipitations that usually befall a certain area. When this happens, pl... |
9 February 2010
10:51 GMT |
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With the recent wave of snow engulfing Europe, numerous ponds across many countries have frozen over on account of the chilly temperatures. Many people have voiced concerns that this is detrimental to the safety of creatures living under the ice, but experts seem to be in agreement – there is no reason for peop... |
11 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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British scientists from the Royal Holloway, University of London, have recently revealed in a new scientific paper that the famous acacia plants actually have a symbiotic relationship with their ants. For all intents and purposes, these plants always appear to be overrun with the six-legged insects, which feed on the... |
28 December 2009
02:33 GMT |
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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
16:21 GMT |
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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
14:41 GMT |
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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
06:09 GMT |
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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
09:32 GMT |
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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
06:34 GMT |
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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
14:01 GMT |
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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
04:01 GMT |
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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
17:51 GMT |
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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
10:52 GMT |
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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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