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Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation

Agriculture drives more than 90 percent of tropical deforestation. Halting deforestation will require a step-change in approach and to be effective measures must address underlying and indirect roles of agriculture, says a new study.

Isabel21/09/2022

News Plant Science

How light and temperature work together to affect plant growth

Plants lengthen and bend to secure access to sunlight. Despite observing this phenomenon for centuries, scientists do not fully understand it. Now, scientists have discovered that two plant factors -- the protein PIF7 and the growth hormone auxin -- are…

Isabel20/09/2022

Forestry News

Fast-growing poplars can release land for food production

Researchers have developed a novel value chain for production of textile and bio-fuel from fast-growing poplars. By applying sustainable catalysis on these poplars grown on marginal land in Nordic climates, the demand for cotton can be reduced. Consequently, considerable areas…

Isabel16/09/2022

News Plant Health

Scientists sleuth out an elusive pathogen in Mexico

For years, scientists and online databases presumed the presence of clubroot—one of the main diseases on cruciferous crops (such as broccoli, cabbage, and kale)—in Mexico. However, no evidence to support this supposition existed until a team of researchers donned their…

Isabel15/09/2022

News Plant Science

New clues to how plants retain healthy genomes, avoid mitochondrial disease

New research sheds new light on how plants, however rarely, experience mutations in their mitochondrial genomes. Unlike humans, plants are able to quickly fix these mutations, and more importantly, not pass them on to their progeny.

Isabel14/09/2022

Agriculture Fruits and Vegetables News

Vanilla cultivation on fallow land promotes biodiversity

How can biodiversity be preserved whilst securing the economic livelihood of smallholder farmers growing vanilla in Madagascar? There is a way, according to a study that shows that vanilla plantations established on fallow land do not differ in terms of…

Isabel13/09/2022

Botany News Plant Science

Researcher discovers new orchid species in the mountains of Tanzania

Biologist has discovered a previously unknown orchid species of the genus Rhipidoglossum in northeastern Tanzania. The new species was named Rhipidoglossum pareense, in keeping with its location in the South Pare Mountains.

Isabel12/09/2022

Agriculture News Plant Science

How a harmful fungus renders its host plant defenseless

The fungus Ustilago maydis attacks corn and can cause significant damage to its host. To do this, it first ensures that the plant offers little resistance to the infection. The surgical precision it applies is shown by a new study.

Isabel08/09/2022

Agriculture Fruits and Vegetables News

Discovery of non-conventional peptides in Vitis vinifera L. through peptidogenomics

Although some researchers have identified peptides through multiple methods, as in Arabidopsis and maize, the biological functions of most NCPs remain to be demonstrated. NCPs function by modulating larger regulatory proteins, and their functions can therefore be predicted from the proteins on…

Isabel07/09/2022

Agriculture News

Multi-channel approach to extension reaps benefits for farmers fighting fall armyworm pest in Eastern Rwanda

A multi-channel approach to extension reaps greater benefits for smallholder farmers fighting the fall armyworm pest in Eastern Rwanda according to new research published. The team found that exposure to a combined mass extension campaign consisting of plant health rallies,…

Isabel06/09/2022

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