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Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions

February 11, 2016
News
Antarctic fungi have spent 18 months on the ISS, managing to survive under Mars-like conditions.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Analytical Chemistry, Atmospheric Sciences, Biophysics, Botany
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New breakthrough in crop science

February 5, 2016
News
A gene amplification method has been shown to be successful at analysing the development of transgenic crops, enabling easier investigation of gene uptake.
Life Sciences
Botany, Developmental Biology
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Marine life triggers atmospheric ice

October 1, 2015
News
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...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Botany, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Zoology
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Caterpillars make leaves glow

June 18, 2015
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany, Zoology
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Too few unsung heroes

January 30, 2014
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany, Zoology
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Aphids act as pawns to spread viruses

January 15, 2014
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany, Zoology
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Plant scientists pick wrong model

October 30, 2013
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany
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Plant geometry secret revealed

September 25, 2013
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany
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Bacteria-coated seeds enable crops to fix nitrogen

September 10, 2013
News
Technology developed at the University of Nottingham could enable all the world’s crops to take nitrogen from the air, rather than from expensive fertilisers.Nitrogen fixation (converting nitrogen to ammonia) is...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany
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Watering your crops by phone

August 5, 2013
News
A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use according to need, to ensure food is produced in a sustainable way.“About 70% of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Botany
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