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Oct 28

Plants without cellular recycling systems get creative in the dark

By Isabel ASPB, News, Plant Science

Deprived of sunlight, plants are unable to transform carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into sugars. They are essentially starved of one of their most important building blocks. The plant’s not-so-secret weapon to combat this and other scarcity is autophagy. Similar…

Oct 27

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A red future for improving crop production?

By Isabel Australian National University, News

Researchers have found a way to engineer more efficient versions of the plant enzyme Rubisco by using a red-algae-like Rubisco from a bacterium. For 50 years scientists have striven to boost the activity of Rubisco, a promising target to increase…

Oct 26

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Engineering Drought-Resistant Crops with Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) Photosynthesis

By Isabel ASPB, News, Plant Science

Drought causes major crop losses in many regions of the world, and climate change threatens to exacerbate the occurrence of drought in temperate as well as arid regions. Researchers used a sophisticated mathematical modelling approach to study the effects of…

Oct 23

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Genome duplications as evolutionary adaptation strategy

By Isabel News, Plant Science

Genome duplications play a major role in the development of forms and structures of plant organisms and their changes across long periods of evolution. Biologists made this discovery in their research of the Brassicaceae family. To determine the scope of…

Oct 22

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E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis

By Isabel ASPB, News, Plant Science, Research

Scientists have engineered a key plant enzyme and introduced it in Escherichia coli bacteria in order to create an optimal experimental environment for studying how to speed up photosynthesis, a holy grail for improving crop yields. Scientists have known that…

Oct 21

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A new bacteria from diseased walnut discovered in Portugal

By Isabel News, Plant Health

Bacteria recently isolated from walnut (Juglans regia L.) buds in Portugal has been identified as a new species of Xanthomonas. Interestingly, this new species baptised as Xanthomonas euroxanthea includes both pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains on walnut, constituting a unique model…

Oct 16

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Research Teams Make Plant Nutrient Delivery Breakthrough

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

The collaboration revealed that the symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi provides nitrates to plants, which could lead to reduced fertilizer use.

Oct 15

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Successful improvement of the catalytic activity of photosynthetic CO2 fixing enzyme Rubisco

By Isabel Agriculture, JSPB, News, Plant Science

A research group has succeeded in greatly increasing the catalytic activity of Rubisco, the enzyme which fixes carbon from CO2 in plant photosynthesis. The research team also hypothesized the mechanism which determines the catalytic activity of Rubisco, based on structural…

Oct 13

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How plants ensure regular seed spacing

By Isabel Agriculture, CEPLAS, Future Directions, News, Plant Science, Research

An international team of researchers led by biologists has examined how seed formation is coordinated with fruit growth. In their report, they explain the genetic control mechanisms underlying the process. If you open up a pea pod, you will find…

Oct 12

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Mystery solved: How do tips of plants stay virus-free?

By Isabel CSPB, News, Plant Health, Plant Science

Plants are able to keep growing indefinitely because they have tissues made of meristems--plant stem cells--which have the unique ability to transform themselves into the various specialized cells that make up the plant, dividing whenever appropriate and producing new cells…

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Plants without cellular recycling systems get creative in the dark

A red future for improving crop production?

Engineering Drought-Resistant Crops with Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) Photosynthesis

Genome duplications as evolutionary adaptation strategy

E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis

A new bacteria from diseased walnut discovered in Portugal

Research Teams Make Plant Nutrient Delivery Breakthrough

Successful improvement of the catalytic activity of photosynthetic CO2 fixing enzyme Rubisco

How plants ensure regular seed spacing

Mystery solved: How do tips of plants stay virus-free?

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