Human genome-wide RNAi library for biotech and pharma research
...t groundbreaking research in cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics and bioinformatics....Scientists crack genome sequence of a major parasitic pathogen
... pathways with great similarities to bacterial and plant counterparts. "These biochemical pathways are very different from those present in humans and will provide new targets for designing effective and safe drugs against C. parvum that should have little activity or toxicity for humans," said Abrahamsen....Should Roundup Ready soybeans be managed differently than conventional soybeans?
...e rows, but many producers in the northern Midwest plant in narrow rows to reduce disease severity and to i...rieties were grown at three row spacings and three plant populations for each row spacing. Conventional varieties were grown with conventional herbicides whi...There be dragons: New deep-sea predator species discovered
...ernational effort to identify all ocean animal and plant species known as the Census of Marine Life. Sutton plucked the new dragonfish from a net being used to sample the study area's marine life. While identifying the catch on board, he realized that the specimen represented a new species. Later he travel...Researcher identifies Irish potato famine pathogen
In June 2001, North Carolina State University plant pathologist Jean Beagle Ristaino shocked the scientific world when she published a paper in the journal Nature that called into question the then-prevailing theories about the strain of pathogen and its place of origin that caused the Irish potat...More evidence of major global extinctions
...butterfly species (over about 20 years) and 28% of plant species (over about 40 years). The fact that these losses are found in butterflies and plants, as well as birds, shows how all-embracing have been the impacts of human activities on wildlife. Reflecting upon these figures, Jeremy Greenwood of the BT...Natural enemies help scientists untangle tropical forest food webs
...leaf miners, researchers removed all traces of the plant that sustains only them. A year after their remova...le species but the researchers found that the vine plant Lepidaploa tortuosa was home to two leaf miners - a fly and a beetle (Latin names Pentispa fairmaire...Plant, bird and butterfly species dwindling in the United Kingdom, researchers report
...butterfly species, as well as 28 percent of native plant species and 54 percent of native bird species. It ...al loss of other species, which rely on particular plant species, might be. Our results support the idea that pollution should be reduced and soon," Stevens ...Challenging shrubland fire management
...onditions" than age-related traits of the region's plant life. Examining the fire history of coastal and southern California shrublands, the group discovered that the majority of shrublands' risk of burning was fairly steady, at about 2.7 percent each year. "Historical fire patterns and quantitative measur...Newly cloned gene key to global adaptation of wheat
...is similar to a gene found in Arabidopsis, a model plant commonly used in research. The VRN1 findings were...winter wheat varieties, the VRN2 gene prevents the plant from developing flowers. But when the plant is exposed to cold weather during vernalization, the ge...Sequencing project results in six-fold reduction of effective size of maize genome
...Orion Genomics, was awarded a two-year, $6 million plant genome grant on September 20, 2002 by the National...20 times larger than Arabidopsis, an experimental plant that is the first plant genome to be completely sequenced. However, maize probably has only twice as...Baker's yeast rises from genome duplication
.... It may account for up to 80 percent of flowering plant species and could explain why fish are the most diverse of all vertebrates. "The results here suggest that it may also be fruitful to search for similar genomic signatures of WGD in other organisms. It will be interesting to see just how far such dis...Genome of first fungal pathogen unveiled
...led the complete genome sequence of the pathogenic plant fungus Ashbya gossypii, which infects agricultural crops including cotton and citrus fruits in the tropics. The fungus has the smallest genome yet characterized among free-living eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are the single-celled and multicellular organism...Researchers discover 1.2 million new genes in Sargasso Sea microbes
...the individual cells in a complex organism, like a plant or a human, work together to give those organisms life, even the simplest microbes often work together in complex microbial communities to perform their many functions including those of interest to DOE. Thus, a key component of Genomics: GTL is en...Ornamental palms vulnerable to disease
...n. (March 3, 2004) - Considered the princes of the plant world, palms are unlike many plant families in the fact that they provide both food and shelter to people, while at the same time are a...Scientists urge caution when releasing engineered organisms into environment
...was compiled by a seven-member panel that included plant and microbial biologists, entomologists, agronomists and fisheries. The group spent the past two-and-a-half years evaluating the ecological effects of current and future uses of GEOs. In spite of nearly a decade of heated public debate and worry over...Transporter's function provides support for eating vegetables, limiting antibiotics
...n produce an enzyme that releases glucose found in plant cell walls, the leftovers of broccoli and other vegetables, fruits and cereals, which cannot be digested in the small intestine. In the oxygen-less environment of the bacteria-packed colon, bacteria ferment this glucose to use for energy which also r...Study examines whether giving good bacteria reduces infections
...olonic cells use glucose found in the indigestible plant cells walls that make it to the colon. Good bacteria produce an enzyme that enables the glucose to be released. In the process of fermenting this glucose so it can be used as energy, bacteria also produce energy-packed short-chain fatty acids. Dr. Ga...Desert science center aims to bridge rift between Jordan and Israel
...eople we talked to in Jordan wanted to move toward plant biotechnology and biotechnology in general.'' Kochavi immediately thought of Stanford because of its reputation in combining science, technology and business. ''We needed a magnet to bring people together, and the opportunity of getting a Ph.D. from ......ven Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey professor of plant breeding at Cornell, who will be a key adviser on ...ven Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey professor of plant breeding at Cornell University, says that the collection of data at the Library of Life is expected ...