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A group led by British-born plant scientist Stephen Long is trying to improve the ability of plants to harness energy from the sun. Their aim is to turbocharge photosynthesis,
The grass, Brachypodium distachyon, can be used by plant scientists the way other researchers use lab mice to study human disease as a model organism that is similar to
an Ecuadorian botanist working with both the Smithsonian Institution and Finding Species. Perhaps the most impressive statistic of all is that a single hectare of forest in Yasunã is projected to contain 100,000 insect species. According to eminent entomologist Dr
Now a study into sunlit water droplets, published in New Phytologist, provides an answer that not only reverberates across gardens and allotments,
including a specimen that was collected at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2009. That species was named Lasioglossum gotham,
$0. 99 5. Botany Buddy Botany Buddy focuses solely on trees and shrubs and contains information on approximately 1,
and also enables registered users to share collections with fellow tree and shrub enthusiasts through the Botany Buddy website.
$5. 99 (Reduced from its usual $9. 99 price for a limited time) 6. Botanical Interests Botanical Interests is another information-laden app that includes harvesting advice
The compounds in dark chocolate are just as good as the botanical compounds in fruit. Cacao seeds should be considered a super fruit
A group of University of Tennessee plant scientists has modified genetically tobacco plants so that the plants will give off a phosphorescent green glow
says Gene Giacomelli, a plant scientist at the University of Arizona, who directs their the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center.
Contacting Botanic Gardens and Hospital Gardeners are some of the new marketing plans we are currently working on.
if there could be a botany of humans, minus the flowers! Darwin, one of the great plant researchers, proposed what has become known as the root-brain#hypothesis. Darwin proposed that the tip of the root, the part that we call the meristem,
Biju a botanist-turned-herpetologist now celebrated as India s Frogman#has made it his life work to find
a botanist at the University of Glasgow who has been doing research on bacterial photosynthesis for more than 30 years.
The botanist has been draping the walls with plants from rain forests for a good 30 years now.
To learn more about these potentially medicinal tablets researchers investigated the chemical mineralogical and botanical composition of fragments of a broken tablet.
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) based in Cambridge has announced the development of a robust new strain of wheat the BBC reports.
In Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest botanist Brent Ewers of the University of Wyoming examined
and flowers his instructor Etta Budd encouraged him to apply to Iowa State Agricultural School (now Iowa State university) to study Botany.
At the time when Christopher Columbus landed in The americas it's said that squirrels could travel from tree to tree from the Northeast to the Mississippi without ever having to touch the ground Chris Roddick chief arborist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New york told Livescience in 2009.
or those seeking gluten-free products said study researcher Steven Newmaster an integrative biology professor and botanical director of the University of Guelph's Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.
when botanist Luther Burbank developed the Russet potato that is ubiquitous today. Some Thanksgiving staples however reflect a non-Northern heritage.
William S. Bigelow an American physician living in Japan and botanist Charles S. Sargent sent cherry trees to the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia in the 1890s for example and the Imperial Botanic Garden
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden planted its cherry walk in 1921. A realtor in Macon Ga. decided to expand the number of cherry trees in his hometown after visiting Washington D c. in 1952.
Climb and oversized nest Several blocks away from Prospect Park at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden another tree-repurposing effort has taken shape in the form of a nestlike structure that visitors can climb inside.
The scientists found these ancient samples which were preserved at the Botanical State Collection Munich and the Kew Gardens in London still had many intact pieces of DNA.
Plants Tell History of Healing NEW YORK Modern medicine owes a great debt to botany. Plants exploited by ancient apothecaries have given rise to more complex and effective cures
In a nod to the world's 30000 herbs that belong to a storied history of healing botanists have gathered 500 medicinal plants for a living exhibition called Wild Medicine here at the New york Botanical garden.
or compounds discovered inside of them said botanist Michael Balick curator of the exhibit  during a press preview of the show.
Balick who is the garden's vice president for botanical science knows all too well about the dangers of curare.
That said the botanist does believe there is some unnecessary fear about herbal medicine. Like all remedies herbs must be taken in the larger context of a person's overall health.
A concurrent exhibition of manuscripts at the New york Botanical garden offers examples of early botanical textbooks some of them more than 700 years old.
A titan arum (or corpse flower) housed here at the U s. Botanic Garden Conservatory has been smelling up its exhibition hall to the delight of thousands of visitors
We've already reached that stage where the plant is showing signs of beginning to pack it in Ari Novy a plant scientist
and public programs manager at the U s. Botanic Garden said. Over the course of the next several days the whole plant will essentially fall apart.
and there are absolutely records in botanic gardens or other horticultural institutions of these plants blooming multiple times in their life spans
but Duke university botanist Dan Johnson has funding from the National Science Foundation and the U s. Department of agriculture to build a low-cost version this summer.
Even humans can perceive sound without hearing it said Frank Telewski a botanist at Michigan State university
and have a healthier diet said Harry Klee a University of Florida plant scientist. Klee and his colleague Linda Bartoshuk a psychologist have found that volatiles chemicals in fruits
and independent botanical researcher who has studied extensively the plants in The himalayas and China. Bamboos are thought to have evolved in the Southern hemisphere on an ancient landmass called Gondwanaland according to a release from Phytokeys.
The new finds was detailed in the American Journal of Botany. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
In a paper published in the journal New Phytologist plant ecologist Nishanth Tharayil and graduate student Mioko Tamura of Clemson University show that kudzu invasion results in an increase of carbon released from the soil organic matter into the atmosphere.
Mycologists Bryn Dentinger and Laura Suz from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew UK used DNA sequencing to identify three new species in a packet of dried porcini mushrooms purchased from a supermarket
and group shows at venues including the Berlin Botanical Museum the Montalvo Arts Center the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the American Museum of Natural history.
and then talking to another botanist in South africa about a different but similar clonal desert shrub and the two had heard never of each other or their work.
Plant scientists at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in the UK are trying to create synthetic#wheat by breeding bread wheat with the ancient grasses it is related to.
7 Ancient Health Ideas Explained Identifying the origin of the chili pepper is not just an academic exercise senior author of the study Paul Gepts a plant scientist at the University of California Davis said in a statement.
which was published June 22 in the Journal of Experimental Botany. To figure out what might be causing the changes Teixeira and a team of researchers analyzed genes in the bark of five high-quality cork trees and five low-quality cork trees growing in Portugal.
They know when they're being touched Simon Gilroy a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told Live Science.
Mast is a botanical term for the hard nut fruits produced by trees like beeches and acorns.
and storing them in botanic gardens or seed banks. I use mathematical and genetic models to determine how many seeds are needed
One reason that I admire Pollan is the excitement and clarity of his book Botany of Desire
His way of teaching botany history cuisine and evolutionary relationships is exciting and I hope that my own writing
says Joachim Gratzfeld, director of regional programmes at Botanic Gardens Conservation International in Richmond, UK.
the Chinese government sent a team of botanists to Xishuangbanna at the time a hinterland where diseases ran rampant to test
says Xu Jianchu, an ethnoecologist at the Kunming Institute of Botany and China's representative at the World Agroforestry Centre,
in which a secret agent-cum-botanist hunts for a missing researcher believed to have discovered an apomixis'supergene'.
a soil and plant scientist at the China Agricultural University in Beijing and lead author of the survey,
and geneticist and plant scientist David Baulcombe got the agriculture prize for his discovery of small interfering RNA in plants,
The notion that increasing crop yields preserves forests and other native lands dates back to the father of the green revolution, the late US plant scientist Norman Borlaug,
But five years on, a spate of research, including 13 papers published on 20 july in a special issue of the journal New Phytologist,
co-author of a review of Amazon drought research in the New Phytologist issue3. These issues are not going to be resolved by technology that is in orbit today.
and one of the New Phytologist papers documents similar results from the longest-running Amazon drought experiment5.
a co-author on four modelling studies in the New Phytologist issue. But in the Northern hemisphere, fertilization experiments which involve pumping tonnes of CO2 into forest plots indicate that the effect is limited by the availability of nutrients such as nitrogen.
a plant scientist who is director of the National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology and a known proponent of GM CROPS.
was conducted by plant scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, and is published today. It finds that gymnosperms
says Eimear Nic Lughadha, a plant scientist at Kew and a lead researcher on the plant risk assessment.
Stephen Hopper, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, says that the assessment will help countries to measure progress towards new targets to halt loss of the world's biodiversity by 2020,
and a professor at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, and the Missouri Botanical garden in St louis sorted through 1. 24 million plant names from a number of data sets,
Nature Newsmodern botanic gardens are much more than just attractive strolling grounds. Many have labs in
which botanists and taxonomists ply their trade. And many take an interest in conservation of the world's flora,
Hulme says that many invasive plant species escaped from botanic gardens, and that the gardens do not do enough to keep their collections in check.
The field site he was visiting was near a botanic garden and he could see that many of the plants in the site had come from the garden.
there was evidence that they may have escaped from botanic gardens. For example, the Brazilian fruiting tree known as strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum),
whether botanic gardens had cleaned since up their act. To find out, he looked at whether areas with more botanic gardens had more alien plants living there.
He used published accounts of the Gross domestic product, population density and alien species diversity of 26 counties.
Then he added to the mix the number of botanic gardens per unit area using a master list of gardens kept by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI),
a global network of botanic gardens that is based in London. He discovered that they did,
although the effect was not strong once the prosperity of the region and the number of people living there were accounted for.
But 12%of the variation in alien-plant richness seems to be down to botanic gardens.
I just wanted to prick the conscience of botanic gardens, he says. Stephen Blackmore, head of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK, says that the botanic-garden community has been buzzing about Hulme's paper.
Many of the managers that he's corresponded with feel that the picture Hulme paints is a bit simplistic.
many share the sense that the era of botanic gardens as intentional introducers of plants to new areas is long past and that, these days,
. I am not saying that that lets botanic gardens off the hook, says Blackmore. He agrees that the issue is an important one to highlight.
BGCI is beginning a project with the Council of europe to develop guidelines about the management of alien and invasive species in European botanic gardens, according to Suzanne Sharrock, director of global programmes at the BGCI.
and folded into the organization's general guidelines for botanic gardens interested in conservation. She expects a draft of the European version of the guidelines to be available by August.
and trees that visitors see at botanic gardens. Hulme says some showy but potentially invasive species
Nature Newsradiation released by the tsunami-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could have long-lasting consequences for the natural environment in the vicinity of the damaged Plant scientists estimate that in the first 30 days after the accident on 11 march, trees,
US plant scientists seek united front: Nature Newsthe perennial grass Miscanthus giganteus has all the makings of a biofuel superstar.
plant scientists will need to coordinate their activities. We're getting more like the physical sciences in the sense that we have to have bigger projects with enormous amounts of information,
Stacey expects that summit participants like all plant scientists, will tout their favourite species, but he hopes for unity in the programmes
says David Harris, deputy director of science at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, UK."
Pro-GM plant scientists also point out that the crops can benefit the environment by enabling farmers to use less-toxic herbicides
a plant scientist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and a co-author of one of the studies,
He named one new genus he had created Exserohilum for the prominent protuberances called hila (the belly buttons of the fungal and botanical world) on its spores.
"The combination of botanical and chemical evidence makes a pretty tight argument that wine was being produced at Lattara,
based in Bonn, Germany, in partnership with the Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew,
That hypothesis has little support among plant scientists contacted By nature.""I suppose it s possible, but it s a very small possibility, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant biologist at the University of California, Riverside.
says Henk  Schouten, a plant scientist at Wageningen University in The netherlands. So instead, Schouten has joined a small
His calculations, based on the worst-case scenario for warming produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, show that the climate regime for the Chicago Botanic Garden in Illinois in 2075 will resemble today s conditions at the Missouri Botanical garden.
They aim to release a more detailed proposal in October at the 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Dunedin, New zealand,
Nearly everything about Amborella is fodder for a botanist s pub quiz. It grows natively in 18 known spots on the New Caledonian island of Grande terre in the South Pacific,
Botanists studying other plants should find the Amborella genome useful as a reference point to identify
Stephen Sillett, a botanist at Humboldt State university in Arcata California, who led the 2010 study, says that the latest analysis confirms that his group s basic findings apply to almost all trees.
the plant scientist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for developing high-yielding wheat crops,
Plant scientists experiment with crossing plants all the time to encourage strains that will yield fruit with more desirable characteristics.
and edited by Darwin's son Francis Darwin and The british botanist Albert Charles Seward. Today would have been Darwin's 205th birthday.
I forget whether I told you that Hooker who is our best British botanist and perhaps the best in the world is a full convert
This widespread tree family has been puzzling botanists for a while due to its complicated taxonomic structure and the morphological similarities between the different genera
In addition they created a living Podocarpaceae collection in the Botanic Garden of the Ruhr-Universitã¤t
which promotes the protection of rare and endangered species. The Bochum team propagate the species and pass them on to other botanic gardens worldwide.
This long passage is outlined in an earlier publication in New Phytologist. Rhizophagus irregularis is the next in this linage to be released by the DOE JGI it follows the ectomycorrhizal fungal symbiont Laccaria the poplar rust pathogen Melampsora and dozens of bacterial genomes.
and Mexican botanists had figured out their correct names some time ago. This was overlooked however in the most recent treatment resulting in an erroneous merging
The U of A study published recently in New Phytologist investigated the tree chemical compounds that play critical roles in the beetle's pheromone production and attraction in both their established lodgepole pine host and in the newer jack pine host.
#Tasmania home to first alpine sword-sedgeresearchers from the University of New england (Australia) and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney (Australia) have discovered a high-altitude species of sedge
Karen Wilson (Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney) described this new species in the open access journal Phytokeys.
#Botany: The secret of short stemsarabidopsis plants that only reach half their normal height have a mutation in the biosynthesis of the plant growth factor gibberellin.
and botany as it allows us to visualize the internal tissues of specimens without damaging them in the least.
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which was conducted by a team of plant scientists from the United states and China and published Oct 18 in Nature Communications.
At the same time industries and automobiles continued to steadily emit carbon dioxide that contributed to a botanical boom.
and understanding how environmental and biological factors affect root structure is of key importance for plant scientists--particularly agricultural scientists.
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Their findings which are reported in the journal New Phytologist elucidate the role played by the enzyme anthocyanidin reductase (ANR) in the switching process.
The Asian Giant hornets are armored dangerous heavily predators says Ken Tan the first author of the paper who also works at the Chinese Academy of Science's Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.
They published their findings in a Special Section in the American Journal of Botany on Rhizosphere Interactions:
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Recently however a research team led by a University of California Davis plant scientist used DNA sequencing technologies to paint a broad picture of how citrus greening impacts trees before they even show signs of infection offering hope for developing diagnostic
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Their publication appears online in the journal New Phytologist. The weed-killer glyphosate sold under the brand name Roundup kills plants by inhibiting a growth-related pathway activated by the epsps gene.
The study featured on the cover of the September issue of the American Journal of Botany used a special microscope to reveal how nanostructures help contain damage within microscopic cavities called bordered pits in wood-fiber cells.
The American Journal of Botany is one of the 10 most influential journals over the last 100 years in the field of biology and medicine according to the Biomedical & Life sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association.
University paleobotanist and a Russian botanist. The tulip tree Liriodendron tulipfera has been considered part of the magnolia family. But David Dilcher of Indiana University Bloomington and Mikhail S. Romanov of the N. V. Tsitsin Main Botanical garden in Moscow show that it is closely related to fossil plant specimens from the Lower Cretaceous period.
The article Fruit structure in Magnoliaceae s l. and Archaeanthus and their relationships appears in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Botany.
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Hong Liu of Florida International University and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Thomas R. Rainwater of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service;
and published their findings recently in the American Journal of Botany. Naturalists are very comfortable with the idea of animals gaining a biological advantage by choosing to live together in high density'colonies'--such as ant nests or seabird rookeries--in certain parts of the landscape notes Hall.
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An international collaboration of plant scientists from VIB and Ghent University (Belgium) the University of Dundee (UK) The James Hutton Institute (UK) and the University of Wisconsin (USA) identified a new gene in the biosynthetic
The entire community has been holding its collective breath waiting for UCSB's Amorophallus titanum its proper botanic name to bloom.
Discovered in 1878 by the Florentine botanist Odoardo Beccarini the Titan arum another common name given the plant by Sir David Attenborough in his BBC nature documentary series heats up as it blooms
Staff at the UCSB biology greenhouse had the foresight to contact the U s. Botanic Garden in Washington D c. to secure pollen from its plant (nicknamed Mortimer in social media that bloomed July 21.
It also has one of the largest communities of plant scientists in the UK. Dr Susan Huxtable Director of Intellectual Property Commercialisation at The University of Nottingham believes that the N-Fix technology has significant implications for agriculture she said:
The winners are defended well against herbivoresthe Bernese plant scientists could show that at the beginning of the experiment mainly species with a high seed mass germinated in the grasslands.
Publishing their results next month in a special edition of the academic journal Annals of Botany the research team has shown the impact of Deroceras reticulatum
while at Newcastle University and is based now at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. We know a lot about the benefits
The research by Hairong Wei Yordan Yordanov and Victor Busov was published by the international journal New Phytologist.
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and weed science at Virginia Tech said that William Hamilton a pioneer botanist who corresponded with William Bartram
While the tree was isolated initially to the properties of a few botanists and wealthy plant collectors commercialization of ailanthus after 1820 coupled with railroad construction projects that connected the eastern and western parts of the state in the mid-1800s intensified its spread according to Kasson who worked with Matthew Davis lab
What we haven't had is clear chemical evidence combined with botanical and archaeological data showing how wine was introduced into France
The announcement now in its sixth year coincides with the anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus--the 18th century Swedish botanist responsible for the modern system of scientific names and classifications.
whether botanical zoological or microbiological and have been named officially during 2012. Selecting the final list of new species from a wide representation of life forms such as bacteria fungi plants
and North america and had been preserved in the herbaria of the Botanical State Collection Munich and the Kew Gardens in London.
The work was led by Dr Manash Chatterjee an Adjunct Faculty member of Botany and Plant science at NUI Galway and has been published in the journal BMC Plant Biology.
and plans for their conservation thanks largely to University of Birmingham plant scientist Nigel Maxted a long time champion for their protection and Khoury's master's degree adviser.
#Chimpanzees use botanical skills to discover fruitfruit-eating animals are known to use their spatial memory to relocate fruit yet it is unclear how they manage to find fruit in the first place.
and use this botanical knowledge during their daily search for fruit. To investigate if chimpanzees know that
Instead inspection probability was predicted by a particular botanical feature--the level of synchrony in fruit production of the species of encountered trees.
They base their expectations of finding fruit on a combination of botanical knowledge founded on the success rates of fruit discovery
Funding was provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural history's Powdermill Nature Reserve in Rector Pa. a Botany-In-Action Fellowship from the Phipps Botanical garden and Conservatory in Pittsburgh an Ivey Mcmanus Predoctoral Fellowship
#Gene discovery may yield lettuce that will sprout in hot weathera team of researchers led by a University of California Davis plant scientist has identified a lettuce gene
The genomic data provides a valuable resource for botanists and breeders to comprehensively understand wheat's genetic diversity and evolutionary history.
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