All ecosystems are equally productive under drought conditions
...me maximum rain-use efficiency, a measure of total plant growth per unit of precipitation. The f...ecosystems' productivity, said Travis E. Huxman, a plant physiological ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He and a team of researchers calcula...Keeping your peas and carrots safe to eat
...cent advances in food safety research are enabling plant pathologists to gain insight into how dangerous hu...al for the transfer of pathogens to fresh produce, plant pathologists are stressing the need to implement and maintain sanitary growing and harvesting condit...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
...nly about 3 percent of the world's quarter-million plant species are weeds, they make up more than a third 36 of the 101 plant species used in pharmaceuticals. In drug companies' quests to discover new remedies, weeds short-li...First ever standards linking climate change, biodiversity and poverty seek global peer review
...e management by restoring and/or maintaining local plant and animal species populations, their associated genetic variability, and their habitats, restoring and/or maintaining biological connectivity, and conserving or enhancing water resources. Overwhelming scientific evidence implicates greenhouse gases...Choice of food helps hungry caterpillar
...in volicitin, a chemical elicitor that signals the plant to produce the volatile chemicals that attract was...e, unlike the fruit, the leaves and flowers of the plant do produce linolenic acid. Caterpillars will often squeeze out of the same hole, even though they h...UF researcher: New low-carb potato to debut in January
...perative in Hastings, said commercial growers will plant their first crop in September for a January harvest, and the potato can be grown throughout Florida's potato-growing areas. Markets for the Florida tubers include the U.S. Northeast and Canada. Don Northcott, marketing manager for HZPC...Nation's plant database falling behind, survey shows
... The problem: Collecting local or in-state plant life is in steep decline, at a time when habitat i...atural heritage" said Alan Prather, a botanist and plant curator at Michigan State University. "This information has to be kept current, because new invasive...Carnegie Mellon U biologists identify critical player in yeast ribosome assembly
...stroy an infectious fungus while leaving animal or plant cells unharmed. Using processes known as transformation and gene disruption, Woolford's group engineered the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, (common baker's yeast) to contain two genes for S14. One normal, or wild-type, gene instructed production of ...CSIRO research in greatest biotech show on earth
...gene technologies to enhance therapies and control plant and animal breeding Diagnostics new approaches to infectious disease identification Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering novel materials for cartilage repair, collagen technologies, biopolymers. Bioprocessing and Functional Foods - prod...VIB presents its annual results at BIO2004 in San Francisco
...isease, inflammatory diseases, human genetics, and plant growth. This figure surpasses that of the previous year, which was already three times as many as at the start of the institute in 1995. This result vaults Flanders' biotechnological research to the top internationally. Also in 2003, VIB expanded it...Articles on remote sensing in ecology published in BioScience
... gross and net primary production (the creation of plant matter by photosynthesis) several times each month. Such assessments, widely distributed, can track environmental degradation and might even be used to make decisions about when to move grazing animals. Robert W. Treuhaft of the Jet Propulsion Labor...3-D micro-imaging technology licensed to Carl Zeiss Jena
...rinsic fluorescence of biomolecules deep in living plant and in animals, where it can diagnose many disease states."...Birds use herbs to protect their nests
... Society for Microbiology. "If the fresh herbs and plant materials that parent birds bring into the nest ha...da and colleagues tested twelve different volatile plant materials against feather-degrading bacteria. Results showed that several types of plant materials ...Genomic biology institute's first grant to focus on soybeans, climate change
...l allow a team led by Evan DeLucia, a professor of plant biology, to focus on the genetic responses of soyb...ology of Global Change research theme, directed by plant scientist Don Ort. The theme was announced in April by IGB Director Harris Lewin. Under the project...Computer model shows increased US threat from soybean rust
...al Research Initiative, Isard is working with USDA plant pathologists Glen Hartman and Montes Miles, both based on the Illinois campus, and agricultural meteorologist Joseph Russo of ZedX Inc. in Bellefonte, Pa., to further enhance the predictive capabilities of the models. Isard notes that the model alrea...Mite transmits viruses damaging to wheat
... fields is part of Dr. Charles Rush's job. He is a plant pathologist with Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta...ses and winter wheat. "Since many producers plant as early as possible to gain cattle forage, this will be a continuing problem," Michels said. I......the negative effects invasive smaller ants have on plant reproduction. According to the authors, exotic an... so abundant in the western US it became the first plant in which biocontrol was attempted, through the introduction of a beetle. Yet, not all exotic species...Vaccines against foodborne disease on horizon
...in or toxin-producing bacteria to determine if the plant vaccine is protective," says Wen. "Once the protective efficacy of these plant-based vaccines is established, the bacterial genes can then be moved into other plants such as bananas or corn for delivery to humans or animals."...Cranberry breeding program may soon bear fruit for growers
...ed and tested for more than 10 years by UW-Madison plant breeders Eric Zeldin and Brent McCown, turn deeply...opment of HyRed is a good example of participatory plant breeding," says McCown, "where the eventual recipients (the growers) take part in the initial breedi......ion in the vines, which reduces the potential for plant disease. Regulating irrigation prior to ripening may also promote cold-hardiness of canes that produce fruiting buds. "There are more than 3,000 acres of wine grapes in Texas, but there has been little research aimed at generating irrigation guidel...