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Balanced fertilization: a fulcrum for sustainable production of maize and rice in Africa

A new benchmark analysis of nutrient omission trial data provides new guidance on the predictors of yield in smallholder maize and rice cropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa.

Isabel06/10/2022

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Environmental scientists explain why so many tree species going extinct is so bad for the planet

A team of environmental scientists has written a follow-up paper to their study published last year that warned that approximately one-third of tree species around the world are in danger of extinction. In this new paper, the group explains why…

Isabel05/10/2022

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Resolving the evolutionary history of the closest algal relatives of land plants

Scientists use genomic data to resolve the phylogeny of zygnematophyte algae and pinpoint several emergences of multicellularity in the closest known relatives of terrestrial plants.

Isabel04/10/2022

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A bitter mystery: Sequencing the world’s oldest plant genome

Scientists have sequenced the oldest plant genome using 6,000-year-old seeds from a watermelon relative collected at an archaeological site in the Sahara Desert in Libya.

Isabel30/09/2022

Botany News Plant Science

Juicy research unearths new genome within the tomato family

Hidden beneath the delicate, red skin and juicy flesh of a tomato is a wealth of nutrients and genetic makeup. With recent research on the first genome of a species in the tomatillo tribe (part of the tomato family), we…

Isabel29/09/2022

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Balanced fertilization: a fulcrum for sustainable production of maize and rice in Africa

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Juicy research unearths new genome within the tomato family

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