but to botanists both trees are part of the rosid superfamily which includes not only fruit crops like apples strawberries cherries
In this effort when plant scientists searched the maize genome for clues as to why some plants can tolerate toxic aluminum in soil they found three copies of the same gene known to affect aluminum tolerance according to new USDA/Cornell-led research.
Arun Pandey from the Department of Botany University of Delhi India and Susanne Renner from the Departments of Systematic Botany and Mycology University of Munich Germany decided to produce a checklist of the Cucurbitaceae of India that would bring up-to date the information
Co-author Professor Phil Stevenson from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the University of Greenwich's Natural resources Institute said:
Resolving this controversy is the main purpose of our work from a botanical standpoint. The physical model of sap exudation attributes the mechanism entirely to pressure
Pankaj Jaiswal Assistant professor of Botany and Plant pathology at Oregon State university Samuel Fox a Postdoctoral Associate in Jaiswal's laboratory and colleagues assembled transcriptomes of a noxious weed Brachypodium sylvaticum
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Their findings can be found in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany.
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and Fortaleza north of Lima where broad botanical evidence pointed to the extensive production processing
and published in the journal New Phytologist may help to resolve an ongoing controversy about the origins of methane in the tropics.
Andrew Macdougall and Kevin Mccann graduate student Gabriel Gellner and Roy Turkington a botany professor and member of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British columbia.
#Plant scientists demonstrate new means of boosting maize yieldsa team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated successfully
The study was initiated by the Mathematics in the Plant Sciences Study Group an annual UK-based workshop organised by The University of Nottingham's Centre for Plant Integrative Biology which kick-starts collaborations between plant scientists and mathematicians.
#Increasing nitrogen-fixing capacity of soybeansassistant professor Senthil Subramanian has become the first South dakota State university plant scientist to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award.
Scientists from the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew which manages the Millennium Seed Bank have shown how by using advanced mathematics they can boost the overall diversity of the seed bank by targeting a'hit list'of particular species
'John Dickie head of botanical information at the Millennium Seed Bank added:''For a number of years we have been keen to know just how much phylogenetic diversity the total outcome of millions of years of seed plant evolution we have in the vault.
and Laura Martinez-Suz from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London set out to ask this question by using DNA-based taxonomy.
None of the botanical literature suggested the Yangtze Valley although many people thought that it happened somewhere in China.
Specifically Anã Dhileepkumar Jayaraman a postdoctoral researcher in agronomy and Simon Gilroy a professor of botany studied how such a slight mechanical stimulus starts round one of a symbiotic relationship--that is a win-win relationship between two organisms.
A New zealand botanist has completed a 15-year study to reveal some surprises and discover astonishing cryptic diversity behind what was considered long a single tree species. The study was published in the open access journal Phytokeys.
Known to botanists as Kunzea ericoides this species was one of the many discoveries made in the northwestern South Island of New zealand by Jules SÃ bastien CÃ sar Dumont d'Urville during the first
Initially described by French Professor of botany Achille Richard as Leptospermum ericoides this species and the allied New zealand endemic Leptospermum sinclairii were merged in 1983 with three other Australian species under the oldest available name (L. ericoides) as a new combination in the related genus Kunzea.
which despite being recognised first as distinct by the missionary botanist William Colenso in the 1840s was denied formal recognition for some 170 years until now.
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--and currently posted online as a preprint--Thomas Givnish a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison attempts to resolve this debate by studying how tree height resource allocation
Rice and maize are two main crops that depend on hybrid breeding said Shizhong Xu a professor of genetics in the UC Riverside Department of Botany
With a lower supply of coffee in the market prices rise and that favors fraud because of the economic gain says research team leader Suzana Lucy Nixdorf Ph d. In 2012 a study from the U k.'s Royal Botanic Gardens
Some like Hawaii's State Flower-Hibiscus brackenridgei-are endangered species. Only a relatively few botanists
Remarkably in 2012 field botanists Hank Oppenheimer & Keahi Bustament with the Plant Extinction Prevention Program and Steve Perlman of the National Tropical Botanical garden found a population of these unique trees in a remote
What an important find said Maggie Sporck State Botanist for Hawaii's Division of Forestry and Wildlife.
5th International Conference on Plant Cell wall Biology and published in the journal New Phytologist. Powdery mildew is a significant problem wherever barley is grown around the world says Dr Little.
The outcome of a thematic project conducted under the FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change (PFPMCG) the study has just been published in the journal Environmental and Experimental Botany.
in Spain and in Brazil the Federal University of SãO Carlos (UFSCAR) the SãO Paulo State University (Unesp) and the North Fluminense State university (UENF) as well as the Cena at USP the Botanical Institute
Now--after a long search turned up a pathetic wilted third specimen--a University of Utah botanist
Bohs'study identifying S. cordicitum as a new species was published in the Aug 1 issue of the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. The three specimens of S. cordicitum--all now pressed
Bohs conducted the research with two other botanists: Stephen R. Stern who earned his doctorate at the University of Utah
In the same study the botanists elevate to full species status three other closely related plants that were named previously varieties of other Solanum species
A botanist wrongly identified the plant as S. heterodoxum. It later was identified wrongly re two more times:
In a paper published in the scientific journal New Phytologist plant ecologist Nishanth Tharayil and graduate student Mioko Tamura show that invasive plants can accelerate the greenhouse effect by releasing carbon stored in soil into the atmosphere.
#Botany: Leafing out and climate changeglobal warming is expected generally to bring spring forward but as a new study at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows a concomitant influx of plant species from warmer southern latitudes could counteract this effect.
As Director of Munich's Botanic Garden she was in a position to remedy this situation.
#Surprising spread of spring leaf-out timesdespite conventional wisdom among gardeners foresters and botanists that woody plants all leaf out at about the same time each spring a new study organized by a Boston
and nutrient cycling reported the study in the journal New Phytologist. Our open-access leaf-out data provide a critical framework for monitoring
University of Florida scientists were part of a research team that this week unveiled a new tool that will help all plant scientists label (annotate in researcher parlance) genes far more quickly
because with 20000 to 30000 genes in a typical plant scientists can't possibly conduct experiments to find out what each and every gene is responsible for.
The open-access system described in a paper published online by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences integrates data from plant scientists around the world into a common platform
Plantseed will help plant scientists begin to make better use of genome information by helping them create consistently accurate models for all plant genomes contained in the database.
Because of tools like Plantseed plant scientists will eventually be able to do the same he said. You can't really make as much use of the genome information as we should be able to until you can do that kind of modeling for plants as well he said.
This is immensely important said Niklaus Grunwald who is a courtesy professor in the Department of Botany
As part of the American Journal of Botany's Centennial Review series Ellstrand reviews the history of gene flow focusing on plants
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and sellers according to the new study published in the journal New Phytologist. Recent experiments in the forests of Sweden had brought into a question a long-held theory of biology:
and released the list May 22 to coincide with the birthday May 23 of Carolus Linnaeus an 18th century Swedish botanist who is considered the father of modern taxonomy.
and many other regions worldwide explained author Esmaeil Fallahi Director of Pomology at the University of Idaho.
when weeds interact with the crops they infest according to plant scientist Sharon Clay. Using sophisticated genetic-mapping techniques the South dakota State university professor
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#Birthplace of the domesticated chili pepper identified in Mexicocentral-east Mexico gave birth to the domesticated chili pepper--now the world's most widely grown spice crop--reports an international team of researchers led by a plant scientist at the University of California Davis
Identifying the origin of the chili pepper is not just an academic exercise said UC Davis plant scientist Paul Gepts the study's senior author.
The comparable idea for plants said Olsen is the dump heap hypothesis originally proposed by Edgar Anderson a botany professor here at Washington University.
But when the plant scientists looked at comparable genetic mechanisms in domesticated plants they found the reverse to be true.
As biologists and specifically as botanists what really struck us was the diversity of fresh plant crops mostly of subtropical/tropical origin that were available in ethnic markets in the northern U s. Like their ancestors who traveled from Europe Africa
The study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Botany includes the analysis of nearly 100 tropical crops
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The technique available in his lab is truly first class and an invaluable resource for plant scientists worldwide.
Findings from this wheat field-test study led by a UC Davis plant scientist will be reported online April 6 in the journal Nature Climate Change.
This dream is coming closer to reality for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers who have developed a new computer model that can help plant scientists breed better soybean crops.
and households of nomadic pastoralists provides some of the earliest concrete signs for east-west interaction in the vast expanse of Eurasian mountains and the first botanical evidence for farming among Bronze age nomads.
environment on plant traitslet's say plant scientists want to develop new lines of corn that will better tolerate long stretches of hot dry weather.
But how can plant scientists get a true picture of a plant's growth and traits under a wide variety of controlled environmental conditions?
three doctoral students and four undergraduates who are all working to build a high-tech solution for plant scientists.
Plant scientists will fill the miniature greenhouses with clear vertical and disposable chips containing seeds that will grow into seedlings.
and their diseases and minimal human disturbance said Benjamin Wilder a Ph d. graduate student in UC Riverside's Department of Botany
The study in the forthcoming April issue of the journal Annals of Botany (published by Oxford university Press) set out to examine
#Lignin breakthroughs serve as GPS for plant researchresearchers at North carolina State university have developed the equivalent of GPS directions for future plant scientists to understand how plants adapt to the environment
I describe these findings as Mapquest for plant scientists says Vincent Chiang co-director of NC State's Forest Biotechnology Group the lead team for the project which involved scientists in the College of Natural resources College of Engineering
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In both experiments researchers used four diets in weanling pigs including a control diet and three additional diets that included garlic botanical extracted from garlic turmeric oleoresin extracted from ginger or capsicum
and a new milestone in plant molecular biology and evolution as previous studies were either classical botany
Plant and animal geometries have evolved more or less in parallel said UMD botanist Todd Cooke. The earliest plants and animals had simple
The fieldwork and surveys in Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary by the team of Dutch and Thai botanists are part of ongoing research on the genomics systematics biogeography and evolution of tropical Asian Oaks
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According to a recent article published in the American Journal of Botany scientists have identified a mechanism enabling a native tree species access to this limiting nutrient.
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Scientists confirm the trade-off in a paper published in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
and lose competitive advantage to more resilient invasive shrubs such as Japanese barberry according to a study published in the new edition of New Phytologist.
But 52 million years ago the giant coniferous evergreen tree known to botanists as Agathis thrived in the Patagonian region of Argentina according to an international team of paleobotanists who have found numerous fossilized remains there.
The researchers report in the current issue of American Journal of Botany that Agathis was a dominant keystone element of the Patagonian Eocene floras alongside numerous other plant taxa that still associate with it in Australasia and Southeast asia.
The bigger the tree the more carbon it stores and a study in New Phytologist explores global variance in tree height identifying temperature as the most important factor behind the tallest species. Height gives canopy trees the focus
Researchers from Oregon State university and Germany published their findings on the fossils in the Journal of the Botanical Institute of Texas. The flowers themselves are in remarkable condition as are many such plants
Within the park, you'll find a zoo, lakes, botanic gardens, ice-skating rinks, concert venues--and priceless views of the surrounding skyscrapers.
Venture into another borough to uncover the beauty of Brooklyn's Prospect Park and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens or the stunning Pelham Bay Park in The bronx.
The nearby Botanischer Garten (Botanic Garden) features 54 acres and 15,000 varieties of flora. Further away from the city center
000 acres and has a Japanese Tea garden, the Conservatory of Flowers, world-class museums, botanic gardens, and more.
Throughout the year. 8. Melbourne, Australia Visit the Royal Botanic Gardens for its 12,000-plus species of plants, trees and flowers, the romantic Treasury Gardens, the greenhouses of the Fitzroy Gardens
This movement in search of biomimetic architecture has forged increasingly unlikely alliances between synthetic biologists, botanists and other scientists with artists,
Collaborations between designers and botanists are finding pragmatic ways to blur the line between manmade construction and nature.
In San francisco, one of the most densely populated places in the U s.,the Italian architect Renzo Piano worked with local botanists to create a new kind of living roof at the California Academy of Sciences
And Plantlab, in partnership with another research firm, Imtech, claims the lights stimulate an impressive botanical dance as they nurture two-to-three times the growth compared to greenhouses.
But botanists at Purdue University hope their research, published in the journal Plant Cell, might eventually improve cleanup strategies, via genetic modification.
In fact, the botanists speculate that one possible explanation for the fern's arsenic storage ability is to discourage animals from dining on fern salad.
Leafsnap combines biometrics and botany for electronic field guidewashington--This week behind the Smithsonian Castle, a research botanist and two computer science professors unveiled Leafsnap, a free plant identification
said John Kress, a research botanist at the Smithsonian s National Museum of Natural history. Now we have a scientific tool for botanists as well as the public.
We did this so people could know what they re looking at but also so they could think about conserving it.
and tons of research--Victoria Bergsagel from Architects of Achievement covered them last week at the What Matters and What Counts in Education breakfast at the Denver Botanic Gardens:
and is teaching aquaponics at the Denver Botanic Gardens. She said she has done market research that suggests the technology may appeal to a half dozen consumer types,
a Chicago Botanic Garden-led urban agriculture training program targeted to underserved local youths. At the helm of Farmedhere is CEO Jolanta Hardej,
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