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Agriculture – a climate villain? Maybe not! A proposal to rethink agriculture in the climate calculations

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that agriculture is one of the main sources of greenhouse gases, and is thus by many observers considered as a climate villain. This conclusion, however, is based on a paradigm that…

Isabel08/07/2020

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Newly Identified Gene Reduces Pollen Number of Plants

Producing fewer sperm cells can be advantageous in self-fertilizing plants. An international study has identified a gene in the model plant Arabidopsis that reduces the number of pollen. In addition to supporting the evolutionary theory, these findings could help to…

Isabel07/07/2020

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Bees? Please. These plants are putting ants to work

In a world first, researchers have discovered a plant that has successfully evolved to use ants—as well as native bees—as pollinating agents by overcoming their antimicrobial defenses.

Isabel06/07/2020

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Plant detectives develop new way to trace global spread of major plant disease

A team of scientists has developed a way to potentially thwart the spread of a disease-causing bacterium that harms more than 100 plant species worldwide, an advance that could save the nursery industry billions a year.

Isabel03/07/2020

Image: soy plant in the field, with close-up of soybean pod. Credit: Julio César García / Pixabay

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How a Molecular “Alarm” System in Plants Protects Them from Predators

Some plants, like soybean, are known to possess an innate defense machinery that helps them develop resistance against insects trying to feed on them. However, exactly how these plants recognize signals from insects has been unknown until now. Scientists uncover…

Isabel02/07/2020

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Agriculture – a climate villain? Maybe not! A proposal to rethink agriculture in the climate calculations

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