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Tree death causation revealed

August 31, 2017
A cohort of scientists from the National Science Foundation in the US, have revealed how trees die during periods of drought.

Climate change affects forestry growth

April 27, 2016
A link between tree growth and climate change has been established by Russian and Spanish scientists.

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions

February 11, 2016
Antarctic fungi have spent 18 months on the ISS, managing to survive under Mars-like conditions.

New breakthrough in crop science

February 5, 2016
A gene amplification method has been shown to be successful at analysing the development of transgenic crops, enabling easier investigation of gene uptake.

Marine life triggers atmospheric ice

October 1, 2015
Marine life in remote ocean regions can contribute to airborne particles that trigger ice formation in clouds. Scientists at the University of Leeds used biological matter samples to discover that...

Caterpillars make leaves glow

June 18, 2015
Scientists have discovered that plants release light energy in response to insect feeding. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany used a camera system...

Too few unsung heroes

January 30, 2014
The honeybee is the unsung hero of the countryside, but there are 13.4 million too few colonies to properly pollinate Europe’s crops.New research from the University of Reading shows that...

Aphids act as pawns to spread viruses

January 15, 2014
Aphids have become the pawns of crop-infecting viruses which influence their host and force them to change in a way that is beneficial to the parasite.In this example of extended...

Plant scientists pick wrong model

October 30, 2013
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists because they have been looking at the wrong flower.Arabidopsis thaliana grows abundantly in cracks...

Plant geometry secret revealed

September 25, 2013
Researchers from the University of Leeds have discovered how plants set the angles of their branches.The mechanism is vital to elucidating the shape of plants, and explaining how some have...

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