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Plant Sciences

Making Progress in Developing Probiotic Beverages without Animal Protein

July 30, 2021
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Quebec, Canada — Most products enriched with probiotics and protein are made with dairy products. However, consumer demand for plant protein is growing. The nutritional value of these proteins must...

Common Floral Bacteria can Induce Pollen Germination

July 29, 2021
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Davis, CA — Certain species of floral bacteria can enhance pollen germination, according to a study published today from the University of California, Davis in the journal Current Biology.“This is...

DNA Duplication Linked to the Origin and Evolution of Pine Trees and Their Relatives

July 22, 2021
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Gainesville, FL — Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might be useful later, they often duplicate their entire genome and hang on to the added genetic...

Genome Studies: More is Not Always Better

July 16, 2021
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Würzburg, Germany — What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb with the botanical name Arabidopsis thaliana serves them as a model organism from which...

Getting to the Bottom of All Life: Visualizing a Protein Key to Enabling

July 14, 2021
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Okayama, Japan — “All living beings, including us, depend on photosynthesis,” says Prof. Wataru Sakamoto of the Institute of Plant Science and Resources at Okayama University, Japan, as...

Where Does the Shape of the Romanesco Cauliflower Come from?

July 12, 2021
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Paris, France — The mystery of the formation of one of the most peculiar plant forms – the Romanesco cauliflower – has been solved by a team of scientists from the CNRS1 and Inria in an...

Acid Sensor Discovered in Plants

July 7, 2021
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Würzburg, Germany — Climate change is causing increased flooding and prolonged waterlogging in northern Europe, but also in many other parts of the world. This can damage meadow grasses, field crops...

Belowground Microbial Solutions to Aboveground Plant Problems

July 6, 2021
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Cologne, Germany — Land plants – plants that live primarily in terrestrial habitats and form vegetation on earth – are anchored to the ground through their roots, and their performance...

Unlocking the Power of Microbiome

July 5, 2021
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Zürich, Switzerland — Hundreds of different bacterial species live in and on leaves and roots of plants. A research team led by Julia Vorholt from the Institute of Microbiology at ETH Zurich, together...

How Plants Quickly Adapt to Shifting Environmental Conditions

July 2, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists–and gardeners–have long known that plants grow taller and flower sooner when they are shaded by close-growing neighbours. Now, for the first time, researchers...

New Study Sheds Light on Evolution of Photosynthesis

June 30, 2021
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New Brunswick, NJ — A Rutgers-led study sheds new light on the evolution of photosynthesis in plants and algae, which could help to improve crop production. The paper appears in the journal New...

Researchers Find Health Benefits of Connecticut-Grown Sugar Kelp

June 28, 2021
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Storrs, CT — When most Americans think of seaweed, they probably conjure images of a slimy plant they encounter at the beach. But seaweed can be a nutritious food too. A pair of UConn researchers recently...

Virus Infection Cycle Revealed in Dynamic Detail

May 25, 2021
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Norwich, UK — A critical process in the infection cycle of viruses has been revealed for the first time in dynamic detail using pioneering plant-based technology. Evidence about the process of...

New Mechanism to Control Tomato Ripening Discovered

May 24, 2021
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Valencia, Spain — An international research group involving the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants (IBMCP), a joint centre of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the...

New Cyanobacteria Species Spotlights Early Life

May 17, 2021
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Ithaca, NY — Cyanobacteria are one of the unsung heroes of life on Earth. They first evolved to perform photosynthesis about 2.4 billion years ago, pumping tons of oxygen into the atmosphere –...

New Technology Enables Rapid Sequencing of Entire Genomes of Plant Pathogens

May 17, 2021
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Eagan, MN — Next-generation sequencing technology has made it easier than ever for quick diagnosis of plant diseases. “It’s really exciting to see how sequencing technologies have evolved...

What Makes Plant Cell Walls Both Strong and Extensible?

May 14, 2021
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State College, PA — A plant cell wall’s unique ability to expand without weakening or breaking–a quality required for plant growth–is due to the movement of its cellulose skeleton,...

Could Wider Use of Gene Reserves Protect Rare Species?

May 11, 2021
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York, UK — UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some of the rarest plants and insects, research at the University of York has...

How Plants Find Their Symbiotic Partners

May 5, 2021
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — What would it be like to produce fertilizer in your own basement? Leguminous plants, like peas, beans, and various species of clover, obtain the organic nitrogen they...

For Tomato Genes, One Plus One Doesn’t Always Make Two

April 14, 2021
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual has a unique set of genetic variations–mutations–that affect how genes...

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