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AI system facilitates plant imaging from germination to root development

An AI-powered imaging system provides rapid automated phenotyping of seed germination and root growth that could help select plants that grow well.

Isabel12/07/2022

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The secret carbon decisions plants are making about our future

New research has revealed that plants make their own ‘secret’ decisions about how much carbon to release back into the atmosphere via a previously unknown process, a discovery with “profound implications” for the use of plants as carbon stores.

Isabel11/07/2022

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Cover crops not enough to improve soil after decades of continuous corn

Although about 20% of Illinois cropping systems are planted to continuous corn, it's nearly impossible to find fields planted this way for decades at a time. Yet long-term experiments, including over 40 years of continuous corn under different nitrogen fertilizer…

Isabel07/07/2022

Botany News Plant Science

Indigenous Borneans knew a tree was two distinct species— genetic analysis confirms they were right

Over 200 years ago, a Spanish botanist described Artocarpus odoratissimus, a species of fruit-bearing tree found in Borneo and the Philippines. The Iban people, who are indigenous to Borneo, know the tree to have two different varieties, which they call lumok and pingan, distinguished…

Isabel06/07/2022

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Tiny Conservation Heroes: Wild Cherry Blossoms Could Save Forest Landscapes

Researchers find that local community perceptions of ecosystem services provided by symbolic wild cherry trees could be used in community-based management and conservation of traditional forest landscapes in Japan.

Isabel05/07/2022

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AI system facilitates plant imaging from germination to root development

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