Sugar metabolism tracked in living plant tissues, in real time
...ich will inform the effort to engineer higher crop yields for food and biofuel production. Led by Carnegie staff member Wolf Frommer, the researchers designed genetically-encoded fluorescent tags to monitor glucose, an important sugar, in leaf and root tissues of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The ...New flood-tolerant rice offers relief for world's poorest farmers
...of being submerged in water but also produced high yields and retained other beneficial crop qualities. Development of submergence-tolerant varieties for commercial production in Laos, Bangladesh, and India is now well under way. In addition to providing a more stable supply of rice in developing countrie...New flood-tolerant rice offers relief for world's poorest farmers
... of beingsubmerged in water but also produced high yields and retained otherbeneficial crop qualities. Development of submergence-tolerantvarieties for commercial production in Laos, Bangladesh and India isnow well under way. In addition to providing a more stable supply of rice in developingcountries, th...Metal homeostasis research in plants will lead to nutrient-rich food and higher yielding crops
...fits such as increased seedling vigor, higher crop yields and resistance to disease," Guerinot said. ...Brownfields may turn green with help from Michigan State research
...ops grown on brownfield sites can produce adequate yields to make them viable for use in biofuel production....udy on campus on good agricultural land to compare yields and the quality of biofuel produced from an agricultural land base versus a marginal brownfield land...Dogs itching to try homeopathic remedies
...y understood from a pharmacological point of view, yields genuine therapeutic results, often after conventional medicines have failed. Such views are supported by a small but growing body of published research. During the trial, the dermatologists at Bristol's Vet School and Mr Hoare will be working in t...Food-crop yields in future greenhouse-gas conditions lower than expected
... in the June 30 issue of the journal Science, crop yields are running at about 50 percent below conclusions ...dent chamber studies have been analyzed to project yields under rising CO2 levels, most plants grown in enclosures can differ greatly from those grown in farm...Scientists to employ Arctic ice and polar bears to protect diversity of world's crops
...of airborne wheat fungus or "rust" that can reduce yields by 55 percent emerged in Uganda in 1999, spread to Kenya and Ethiopia by 2003, and is now moving out of Africa and into South Asia. Dubbed Ug99, the rust was recently reported in coastal Pakistan and could threaten India's 21.6 million ton wheat harv...More than drought affecting wheat yields
...ucers have more than the drought cutting intotheir yields this year, said two Texas Agricultural Experiment ...er can do, Allen said. Widespread cases can reduce yields enoughthat only grazing or making silage from the crop can salvage any income.In many cases, the cro...Plant diseases threaten chocolate production worldwide
...oetz. "In this region, either disease could reduce yields by an additional one million more metric tons per year," he said. New insights and current research on cacao diseases, as well as resistance to and management of the diseases, will be addressed during the Cacao Diseases: Important Threats to Chocola...New genetic test for breast cancer
...atient will benefit from chemotherapy. "This test yields what is called a recurrence score. For about 55 percent of women, the recurrence score is greater than 25 or less than 11. In these cases, the test clearly indicates the most effective therapy: a combination of chemotherapy and hormones for women ...The brain's executive is an 'event planner'
...n is significant, said the researchers, because it yields new basic insight into a central function of behavioral planning in this higher brain region, called the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC). The researchers, led by Hajime Mushiake of Tohoku University School of Medicine, reported their findings in the...Interfering RNA silences genes in 'slippery' immune cells
...netic sequences to regulate the gene activity that yields an siRNA. After the researchers tested a variety of SECs to determine which is the most effective, they inserted the desired SEC into a vector, a biological agent that inserts itself into a target cell's nucleus more efficiently than an unaccompanied......anges in plant characteristics to enhance biofuels yields be made in 10 to 20 years? What traits need to changed? What new knowledge is needed to accomplish these changes? "We are honored to have Dr. Keegstra featured in National C-FAR's 'LUNCH~N~LEARN' Hill Seminar Series," said Joe Layton, President o...Salk scientists untangle steroid hormone signaling in plants
...nt growth-promoting properties could increase crop yields or enable growers to make plants more resistant to drought, pathogens, and cold weather. Unfortunately, synthesizing brassinosteroids in the lab is complicated and expensive. But understanding how plant steroids work at the molecular level may one d...Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides
...of the type of cotton grown. Carrire suggests that yields were similar across cotton types because the additional insecticide applications on the non-Bt fields cut down on the damage from whiteflies and western tarnished plant bugs. To see what factors affected insect biodiversity in the cotton fields, the...Scaled-down genome may power up E. coli's ability in lab, industry
...ner E. coli genome, the Wisconsin scientists note, yields bacteria that require no additional care and feeding in the laboratory, an important feature for any model organism or organism used to mass produce biological products. According to Blattner, the changes made to the E. coli genome were accomplished ...Bioportfolio: Life-long persistence of erythrovirus DNA genomes in human tissue
...iral genomic material persisting in the human body yields valuable information on viral phylogeny and on molecular epidemiology of infection. Although these results are of greatest interest to the relatively small group interested in erythrovirus (parvovirus) research, the ideas discussed are of wider inte...Honeybee decision-making ability rivals any department committee
... rather than consensus or compromise, consistently yields excellent collective decisions," said Seeley. When a hive gets too crowded, its queen and half the hive will swarm to a nearby tree and quietly wait while several hundred scouts go house hunting. To explore the decision-making process, the researche...Rutgers team's coal-to-diesel breakthrough could drastically cut oil imports
...d at the University of Washington. Fischer-Tropsch yields a wide distribution of molecular weight hydrocarbon products but without any way to control the desired mix. The molecular weight is the weight of a molecule of a substance, or the sum of the weights of all atoms in the molecule. The low-weight and t...