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Dec 30

How increasing the yield potential depends on the row-type in barley

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

Agriculture is the major player in contributing to global food security. Increasing our crop productivity is currently a challenging task due to the limitations of climatic change and decreasing of agricultural land. Sustainable agriculture has been considered an excellent solution…

Dec 28

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Tropical forests recover after deforestation

By Isabel Forestry, News

Tropical forests are disappearing at an alarming rate through deforestation, but they also have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. This has been shown by an international study led by scientists from Wageningen University. How a forest recovers,…

Dec 27

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The layered effect: A single-cell map of corn’s root reveals a regulator of cellular diversity

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

A new study uses novel single-cell profiling techniques to reveal how plants add new cell layers that help them resist climate stressors like drought or flooding. The research focuses on corn—a critically important crop around the world—in an effort to…

Dec 24

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Plant pathogen evades immune system by targeting the microbiome

By Isabel News, Plant Health, Plant Science

A research team has discovered how a pathogenic fungus can bypass the immune system of plants. By releasing an ‘effector’ molecule, it avoids elimination at a critical stage in its reproduction cycle.

Dec 23

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Identifying highly recombinant plants for breeding

By Isabel Agriculture, CEPLAS, News

For plant breeding, it is important to create as many combinations as possible of genetic variants within a short time to select the most suitable candidates between plants with many different characteristics. A working group has now developed a method…

Dec 22

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Bacteria and Plants Fight Alike

By Isabel News, Plant Health, Plant Science

A brown blotch on a plant leaf may be a sign that the plant’s defenses are hard at work: When a plant is infected by a virus, fungus or bacterium, its immune response keeps the disease from spreading by killing…

Dec 21

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The protein bHLH11 functions as an active repressor for iron toxicity in Arabidopsis

By Isabel News, Plant Science

Iron (Fe) is an indispensable microelement for plant growth and development, but Fe excess can be toxic to plants. To maintain Fe homeostasis, plants must sense the environmental Fe concentration and fine-tune the expression of Fe uptake-associated genes accordingly. Previous studies…

Dec 20

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Breeding Plants With Genes From One Parent

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

Scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. New research shows the underlying mechanism behind eliminating half the genome and could make for easier and more rapid breeding of crop plants with desirable traits…

Dec 17

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Bucket brigades and proton gates: Researchers shed new light on water’s role in photosynthesis

By Isabel News, Plant Science

Photosystem II is a protein in plants, algae and cyanobacteria that uses sunlight to break water down into its atomic components, unlocking hydrogen and oxygen. A longstanding question about this process is how water molecules are funneled into the center of…

Dec 16

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Africa’s “Green Wall” also makes economic sense

By Isabel News, Plant Science

Years ago, the African Union decided on an ambitious program: degraded ecosystems in parts of the Sahel are to be successively restored in order to secure food for the people living there and to protect the soil against further degradation.…

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How increasing the yield potential depends on the row-type in barley

Tropical forests recover after deforestation

The layered effect: A single-cell map of corn’s root reveals a regulator of cellular diversity

Plant pathogen evades immune system by targeting the microbiome

Identifying highly recombinant plants for breeding

Bacteria and Plants Fight Alike

The protein bHLH11 functions as an active repressor for iron toxicity in Arabidopsis

Breeding Plants With Genes From One Parent

Bucket brigades and proton gates: Researchers shed new light on water’s role in photosynthesis

Africa’s “Green Wall” also makes economic sense

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