Urban heat islands make cities greener
... that city climates have a noticeable influence on plant growing seasons up to 10 kilometers (6 miles) away...d model to assess the effects of global warming on plant growing seasons and ecosystems. As temperatures warm due to climate change, growing seasons will lik...Save the rainforest - eat a tree
...ther tough leaves or chemical defenses. "A plant can't be extremely well-defended from insects and grow very fast," says Fine. "It's similar to why you can't have the heaviest, safest car and the fastest car." Unprotected, the red clay trees transplanted onto white sand soil died at twice th...AGU journal highlights - 29 July 2004
...029/2004GL019956, 2004 7. Blackout reveals power plant pollution The summer 2003 electrical power blackou...gion. Marufu et al. show that the unexpected power plant shutdown inAugust 2003 allowed researchers an opportunity to examine the changes in airbornepollutio...Plant gene discovery could enhance plant growth, reduce fertilizer needs and phosphate pollution
...e environment could be substantial: more efficient plant growth with less phosphorus-based fertilizer, and...culture" Harrison explained in an interview before plant biologists' meeting. "Phosphorus is a nutrient wherever it goes, and in our lakes and rivers it ofte...Hunt for a new plant hormone points to carotenoids
...king for clues to the identity of a mysterious new plant hormone, a research team lead by Ottoline Leyser o...ht to coordinate rates of growth between different plant tissues. In plants, as in animals, communication between different parts of the body is vital if the...NSF awards $10 million in grants to ocean sites for long-term ecological research
...his ecosystem; the nature of coral reef animal and plant community structure and diversity; and the factors that determine the abundance and dynamics of related populations. "This understanding," says Taylor, "will allow us to make more accurate predictions of how coral reef ecosystems respond to environm...Briggs takes to the molecular level Darwin's findings on plants sensing the direction of light
...roperties by chemists and biophysicists as well as plant biologists. Professor Briggs began experimenting on how plants detect the direction and intensity of light in the 1950's, but he certainly was not the first to be drawn to this fascinating example of sensory biology. For example, Charles Darwin an...Growing new breed of vaccine-producing plants to fight human diseases worldwide
... genes from human pathogens can be introduced into plant cells, and intact plants regenerated which "bio-ma...the pathogen gene products. Simple feeding of the plant tissues to animals or humans results in an immune response to the subunit vaccines," Arntzen comment...Plant respiration not just an evolutionary leftover, study shows
...rocess, photorespiration, is necessary for healthy plant growth and if impaired could inhibit plant growth, particularly as atmospheric carbon dioxide rises as it is globally. Their findings are publ...Canadian Society of Agronomy partners with Plant Management Network
...N), an innovative website designed exclusively for plant and agricultural professionals, is pleased to anno... Plant Science Database, including more than 3,000 plant and crop science documents provided by PMN partners. "CSA's new partnership with PMN allows CSA memb...Healthy fats and oils essential to satisfy calorie-conscious consumers
... 13 percent. "Margarine spreads containing natural plant sterols are formulated in such a way that they contain less cholesterol-raising saturated fat and more cholesterol-reducing polyunsaturated fat and could also reduce cholesterol almost up to 10 percent within three weeks," concludes Nadkarny.......ied for its cancer-fighting characteristics. Other plant species make a highly toxic fluorine compound that is poisonous to livestock. The organohalogen produced by many ticks, however, has a more alluring effect. The female of 14 tick species emits a chlorine-containing chemical that is a sex pheromon...Research reveals role of gene in infertility
...r process. "Our research leads us to suspect that plant cells repair breaks in their DNA in a different wa...eiosis for the entire set of chromosomes in normal plant cells, but Ma found that it does not form in the reproductive cells of the mutant plant. "You just ...From orchards and fields to townhouses and offices
...was once farmland becomes more and more developed, plant pathologists are charged with trying to find ways ...oblems new to American agriculture also arise when plant diseases or insects are transported through California's high-trafficked airports and harbors. The M...UGA named recipient of $5.6 million grant from NSF for corn improvement
...e, an associate professor in the UGA department of plant biology. "It just points out the strength in our e...lready new avenues of research have been opened in plant studies by the publication of the genetic map of centromeres in a plant called Arabidopsis, which is...Significant strides in small regulatory RNA research in plants
.... miRNAs have been found to play specific roles in plant development, including the regulation of flowering...s can enter and move through the phloem of several plant species. Furthermore, these authors identify a novel protein, Cucurbita maxima PHLOEM SMALL RNA-BIND...National Corn Growers Association announces valuable maize genome data now available to scientists
...ision to improve the human condition through basic plant research. Please visit www.danforthcenter.org f...iotechnology company utilizing multiple integrated plant genomics technologies to develop innovative products. For more information on Ceres, see: www.ceres...Society for conservation biology conference
... development that maximizes open space can benefit plant and wildlife, but findings from a recent study of ...tore native habitat to the former site of a cement plant on the Bronx River, now a city park. The Cat from the Wrong Side of the Freeway Major highways lim...'Trap' crop saves Texas cross timbers melon production
...wing it in culture dishes; Reinfecting a healthy plant with the isolated bacterium to see if it would res...rise to many," Mitchell said. "The squash bug is a plant feeder, but it had not been known to transmit any other disease agents." Further work proved the d......R An infestation of tropical soda apple, a thorny plant on the federal noxious weed list, has been verifie...-845-6531, or e-mail digital photos of the suspect plant to her at m-ketchersid@tamu.edu . It's important that landowners act promptly if they suspect the...