Help ASPB fully endow its Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award before the end of the year.
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Recreating the process of photosynthesis, whereby plants naturally convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into chemical energy to power their existence, is a key objective in renewable energy research, and a new study out of the Singapore's...
source: From New Atlas
When Judith Klatt began studying the colorful mats of primitive microbes living in a sinkhole at the bottom of Lake Huron, she thought she might learn something about Earth's early ecosystems. Instead Klatt, a biogeochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology...
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Over the past two decades, dramatic increases in opioid overdose mortality have occurred in the United States and other nations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid epidemic has only worsened. The documented effects of YHS,...
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Marsh plants, which are ubiquitous along the world's shorelines, can play a major role in mitigating the damage to coastlines as sea levels rise and storm surges increase. Now, a new MIT study provides greater detail about how...
source: From Massachusetts Institute of Technology via Phys.org
Buying tomatoes and other fruits in the grocery store is always a gamble because, however good they look, they are often firm but lack flavor. A group of plant scientists has discovered a gene that could increase the odds that future store-bought tomatoes stay firm until...
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Like the plot of a mystery novel, research has found a twist in the way plants cannibalize their own cells to survive under stress.
In response to drought, cold, lack of sunlight and other stress, cellular proteins interact in different...
source: From The Layfayette Leader
In Star Trek, characters carry a little handheld device called a tricorder that they can point at objects to analyze and identify them. When the show's writers cooked up the idea in the 1960s, it was purely science fiction, but...
source: From Field Museum via Phys.org
Plants need water to grow. So if there's water, shouldn't there be more plants? New research out of University of California Santa Barbara and Mpala Research Centre in Laikipia, Kenya shows it's a lot more complicated than that.
source: From University of California - Santa Barbara via ScienceDaily
The Earth is losing plants, fungi and the ecosystems they are part of at an unprecedented rate. Many of the useful properties of plants and fungi remain largely untapped and hold the potential to bring equitable benefits to people and nature. Kew Science has unveiled its...
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A recent study found that almost half of cell-biology papers and up to one-quarter of physiology and plant-science papers in leading journals contained images that would be completely or partially inaccessible to readers with deuteranopia, a form of red–green colour...
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Meet Leonie Hacker, first author of "The repair of topoisomerase 2 cleavage complexes in Arabidopsis."...
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If you are a first author on a Plant Direct paper and would like to share your profile with us, please...
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Meet Radosław Mazur, first author of "The SnRK2.10 kinase mitigates the adverse effects of salinity...
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Several US universities have created a program to help promote faculty diversity by supporting postdocs interested in faculty and research careers who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education...
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