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Climate change boosts banana disease

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2019

Climate change has been found to raise the risk of a fungal disease in banana crops.!--more--

The …

Chlorophyll-producing organism is non-photosynthetic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2019

Biologists have identified the first organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in p…

Evolved herbicide resistance driven by chemical usage

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2018

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have identified factors which are driving the evolution…

Bees feeling blue for flowers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2017

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that flowers have nanoscale ridges tha…

Renewable energy branches out

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2017

A team from the US have found a way to convert one of the World’s most abundant polymer – lignin –i…

Tree death causation revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Aug 2017

A cohort of scientists from the National Science Foundation in the US, have revealed how trees die …

Climate change affects forestry growth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2016

A link between tree growth and climate change has been established by Russian and Spanish scientist…

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2016

Antarctic fungi have spent 18 months on the ISS, managing to survive under Mars-like conditions.

New breakthrough in crop science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2016

A gene amplification method has been shown to be successful at analysing the development of transge…

Marine life triggers atmospheric ice

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2015

Marine life in remote ocean regions can contribute to airborne particles that trigger ice formation…

Caterpillars make leaves glow

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2015

Scientists have discovered that plants release light energy in response to insect feeding.!--more--…

Too few unsung heroes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jan 2014

The honeybee is the unsung hero of the countryside, but there are 13.4 million too few colonies to …

Aphids act as pawns to spread viruses

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2014

Aphids have become the pawns of crop-infecting viruses which influence their host and force them to…

Plant scientists pick wrong model

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Oct 2013

One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists be…

Plant geometry secret revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Sep 2013

Researchers from the University of Leeds have discovered how plants set the angles of their branche…

Bacteria-coated seeds enable crops to fix nitrogen

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2013

Technology developed at the University of Nottingham could enable all the world’s crops to take nit…

Watering your crops by phone

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2013

A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use accor…

Why strawberries taste like strawberries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013

Researchers have discovered what gives ripe strawberries their characteristic aroma.!--more-- Acco…

Flesh-eating plant discards DNA ‘junk’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2013

Scientists have spent decades puzzling over why noncoding DNA makes up the majority (98%) of the hu…

Quantum carotenoids shine light on photosynthesis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 May 2013

The mechanism by which carotenoids help chlorophyll turn light into chemical energy has been uncove…