Botany News Plant Science

New insights into the earliest events of seed germination

Plant seeds may strike the casual observer as unspectacular – but they have properties that are nothing short of superpowers. In a dry state they can store their energy for years and then suddenly release it for germination when environmental…

Isabel24/01/2020

Climate change News

Rethinking climate modelling to prepare for even hotter temperatures

Improper adoption of climate impact modelling could leave us ill prepared for even higher temperatures and more frequent heatwaves, according to new research.

Isabel22/01/2020

Agriculture News Plant Science

Identifying a plant cell barrier to breeding more nutritious crops

What if we could grow plants that are larger and also have higher nutritional content? For decades, scientists have been trying to dial up amino acid content in crops by ramping up their production systems, but they always run into…

Isabel20/01/2020

Agriculture Forestry News Plant Science

Understanding the mechanisms of seemingly chaotic synchronization in trees

The synchronization of seed production by trees has garnered attention due to its importance in agriculture, forestry and ecosystem management. Therefore, understanding the timing and mechanisms that contribute to synchronized seeding can be a useful management tool.

Isabel17/01/2020

Botany News Plant Science

The Delicate Water Lily: A Rose by Another Name?

Genome Duplication Events May Have Contributed to Floral Scent Biosynthesis and Other Traits of Early-diverged Flowering Plants

Isabel16/01/2020

News Plant Science Research

New methods promise to speed up development of new plant varieties

A research team recently developed new methods that will make it significantly faster to produce gene-edited plants. They hope to alleviate a long-standing bottleneck in gene editing and, in the process, make it easier and faster to develop and test…

Isabel15/01/2020

Forestry News Plant Health

Pine trees with larger resin ducts better able to survive mountain pine beetle attack

A new study shows that lodgepole pine trees with larger resin ducts survived beetle attacks that killed trees with smaller ducts. Located in the needles, branches, trunk and roots, the ducts act like highways to carry sticky, toxic resin to…

Isabel14/01/2020

Agriculture News Plant Science

Sorghum domestication illuminates relationship between humans, crops and the environment

A new study that examines the genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa’s most reviled bird species illustrates how human genetics, crops and the environment influence one another in the process of plant domestication.

Isabel10/01/2020

Botany Climate change News Plant Science

New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate change-ready

Botanists from have discovered that “penny-pinching” evergreen species such as Christmas favourites, holly and ivy, are more climate change-ready in the face of warming temperatures than deciduous “big-spending” water consumers like birch and oak. As such, they are more likely…

Isabel09/01/2020

Climate change Forestry News

Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before. They could do it again

The catastrophic bushfires raging across much of Australia have not only taken a huge human and economic toll, but also delivered heavy blows to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Scientists are warning of catastrophic extinctions of animals and plants.

Isabel08/01/2020

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New insights into the earliest events of seed germination

Rethinking climate modelling to prepare for even hotter temperatures

Identifying a plant cell barrier to breeding more nutritious crops

Understanding the mechanisms of seemingly chaotic synchronization in trees

The Delicate Water Lily: A Rose by Another Name?

New methods promise to speed up development of new plant varieties

Pine trees with larger resin ducts better able to survive mountain pine beetle attack

Sorghum domestication illuminates relationship between humans, crops and the environment

New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate change-ready

Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before. They could do it again

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