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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
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.
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.
In Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest botanist Brent Ewers of the University of Wyoming examined
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
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.
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.
We've already reached that stage where the plant is showing signs of beginning to pack it in Ari Novy a plant scientist
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 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.
the Chinese government sent a team of botanists to Xishuangbanna at the time a hinterland where diseases ran rampant to test
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,
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.
which botanists and taxonomists ply their trade. And many take an interest in conservation of the world's flora,
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
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,
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
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
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
which was conducted by a team of plant scientists from the United states and China and published Oct 18 in Nature Communications.
and understanding how environmental and biological factors affect root structure is of key importance for plant scientists--particularly agricultural scientists.
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
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.
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
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
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.
It opens up a lot of new things we can do as plant scientists. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Davis. Note:
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
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.
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.
#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.
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.
#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.
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
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.
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.
Now--after a long search turned up a pathetic wilted third specimen--a University of Utah botanist
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:
#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
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.
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.
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
#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.
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 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.
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.
#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
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
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.
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
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.
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