As temperatures rise, researchers identify mechanisms behind plants’ response to warming
With implications for agriculture and food production, biologists have mapped two pathways that plants follow under high heat conditions. Credit: ...
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Do plants and fungi exchange carbon for nutrients? Unlikely, researchers say
Symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi have been described as a kind of economic market, in which plants trade carbon ...
Closely related plants show species use different methods to adapt to extreme environments, study finds
Overview of contrasting salinity tolerance strategies of northern and central coastal metapopulations of B. fruticulosa. Credit: Proceedings of the National ...
Researchers Create Database of AI Models to Find New Alloys for Nuclear Fusion Plants
This illustration shows how atomic configurations with equiatomic concentration of niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), and vanadium (V) can become disordered. ...
Research shows auto plants increased their workforce after transitioning to electric vehicle production
Workers at a Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, work under the body of an all-electric 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning. Credit: ...
New research finds fungi that live in healthy plants are sensitive to climate change
Cladonia, a lichen, grows in a white puff just a few inches above a carpet of moss called Pleurozium. Like ...
Could mini nuclear power plants fill South Africa’s energy deficits?
South Africa's Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand, near Cape Town, uses seawater, unavailable inland, as a coolant. South African ...
Car fumes and weeds are a double whammy for fire-loving native plants
Ground rose, or Linanthus dianthiflorus, is known to bloom in greatest abundance after fire and rain. Credit: Justin Vallière/UC Davis ...
Asexual propagation of cultivated plants gets closer thanks to new study
Seed structure with a large central dividing cell in the center (cell nucleus in yellow) surrounded by parent plant tissue ...
Researchers uncover key to molecular mystery of how plants respond to changing conditions
The researchers focused on the sugar pectin, the receptor proteins FERONIA and LLG1, and the signal peptide RALF to understand ...
