From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
...y to examine root growth and responses of tolerant plants to toxic aluminum and compacted soils. The neutron radiography facility now has the capability for real-time observing. A video camera inside the high-flux beam configuration can show what happens to a sample, as it is happening. This beam is 40 ti...Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...ally engineered and successfully field tested rice plants that resist some of the most destructive insects a... rice plants, which incorporates genes from potato plants to resist insect damage and genes from barley plants to make them salt-and drought-tolerant, will be...Researchers Use Hydrated Lime To Reduce Toxic Selenium Emissions
...tions on seleniumare going to be," Fan said. "Some plants may find iteasier to install a very expensive wet scrubber to remove allof the harmful byproducts from flue gas and fly ash." But dry sorbent injection technology could be more cost efficientfor the removal of selenium, and possibly arsenic. Another ...Photosystem I -- An Intermediate Step -- May Not Be Necessary For Plants
...tosynthesis -- the process by which cells in green plants convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy and use carbon dioxide to produce sugars -- needs two intermediate light-dependent reactions for successful energy conversion: Photosystem II and Photosystem I. But according to a new study reporte...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...finitely in the ground the ways seeds of manyother plants can. In her article in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Snook warnsthat the way mahoganies reproduce makes them "vulnerable to logging,first because juvenile mahoganies are not found in the understory, and secondlybecause logging operations...Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
... and will lead to the creation of new and improved plants and plant-based products. "Because plants are vital to our existence, increased understanding of the biology of plants will impact every facet...Gene Discovery Could Overcome Aluminum Barrier To Higher Wheat Yields Worldwide
...ill help plant breeders around the world find rice plants that have genes for greater resistance to zinc deficiency. Sulfides formed in rice paddies make zinc unavailable, which costs farmers million of dollars in lost yields annually. [Contact : Rufus Chaney, <a href="http://hydrolab.arsusda.gov/ecl/W...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
...an be used to estimate what will happen to today's plants in the next century as increasing greenhouse gases warm the climate by several degrees. "The plants we see around us today had 21,000 years to adapt to a several-degree warming. Now these same plant t...NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...s of carbon, particularly in the lush tropics, but plants and soils also release carbon, and the overall cycling in the tropics may be affected by the perennial fires. "One big question we're asking," says NCAR/EXPRESSO field project leader Alex Guenther, "is whether the tropics serve as a net source or a n...North America Hit Hard By Asteroid Strike In Yucatan 65 Million Years Ago
...0 percent before it.At the base of the food chain, plants are considered sensitive indicators ofenvironmenta...erns reproduce through the use of hardyspores, the plants are regarded as key flora in colonizing the site of anatural disaster. Plants in parts of the world...... of more than 200 exotic macroscopic species, both plants and animals, to San Francisco Bay in the past 150 years, suggesting that the bay is the most invaded estuary in the world. T. hadai's presence in San Francisco Bay is probably not the first time one of these tiny organisms has traveled around the wo...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...ect Antarctica's terrestrial plants? How are such plants reacting to the 50-year warming trend around the Antarctic Peninsula? Thomas Day of the University of Arizona and his team will study the impact of UV-B and warming on the health of two vascular plant species near Palmer Station on the Antarctic Pen...Scientists Identify Retrovirus-Like Components In Corn Genome
...nts. The findings offer new insights into why some plants have larger genomes than others, and they indicate that some plants may be able to thwart certain viruses that are devastating to humans. Every living organism has a ge...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...s of carbon, particularly in the lush tropics, but plants and soils also release carbon, and the overall cycling in the tropics may be affected by the perennial fires. This fall's campaign is focused at two sites: one in a rainforest near the Congo's Nouabale-Ndoki National Park and the other in th...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
...enes in wild rice and other wild relatives of crop plants can do spectacular things. All we're doing is using modern techniques to find those genes and harness them for human food production."...Plants Have Future As Environmental Clean-Up Agents
...ry. "Usuallyit means bacteria or fungi-emphasizing plants which are present inthe root zone." In essence, the vegetation serves as a pump bringing contaminatedwater close to the surface. Depending on the type of chemicalpresent, bacteria on the plant roots can feed on some types ofchemicals, while other ch...KU Researcher Eyes The Rain Forest Through The Trees
... in the plant tissues. The research shows how well plants are using carbon dioxide and water in tropical for..., oxygen and hydrogen. The research shows how well plants are using carbon dioxide and water in tropical forests that are normally inaccessible to measurement...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
... that this extra nitrogen would spur the growth of plants and that the plants, in turn, would absorb some of the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to moderate global warming. That scenario now seems unlikely, say scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of Minnesota. In the D...Disease Resistance Mechanism Identified in Plants
...ed a decades-old notion that disease resistance in plants is triggered by the interaction of proteins produc... have wide application. "It turns out that plants resist diverse pathogens -- includingbacteria, fungi and viruses -- by using very similar defense me......ed a decades-old notion that disease resistance in plants is triggered by the interaction of proteins produc... have wide application. "It turns out that plants resist diverse pathogens -- includingbacteria, fungi and viruses -- by using very similar defense me...