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How did an ancient plant from Latin America become Asia’s second-most-important cash crop?

Valued at dining room tables and factory floors alike, cassava is worth about $10 billion in Asia. The continued growth of the commodity faces challenges from climate change, land degradation and limited investment in crop improvement and disease.

Isabel14/05/2020

Forestry News Plant Health Plant Science

Ash dieback is less severe in isolated ash trees

New research finds that ash dieback is far less severe in the isolated conditions ash is often found in, such as forests with low ash density or in open canopies like hedges, suggesting the long term impact of the disease…

Isabel13/05/2020

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Hormone produced in starved leaves stimulates roots to take up nitrogen

Researchers have found that in response to the nitrogen demand of leaves, plants produce a hormone that travels from the leaves to the roots to stimulate the uptake of nitrogen from the soil. This hormone is produced in the leaves…

Isabel12/05/2020

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Mutation reduces energy waste in plants

In a way, plants are energy wasters: in order to protect themselves from excessive electron transport, they continuously quench light energy and don’t use it for photosynthesis and biomass production. A mutation can make them work more efficiently. To this…

Isabel08/05/2020

ASPS News Plant Science Research

A new analytic method for identifying bioactive compounds in complex plant extracts

A group of scientists from Sechenov University, Russia, and La Trobe University, Australia, have developed a fast and cost-effective method of detecting and identifying bioactive compounds in complex samples such as plant extracts. They successfully applied the method to examine…

Isabel07/05/2020

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How did an ancient plant from Latin America become Asia’s second-most-important cash crop?

Ash dieback is less severe in isolated ash trees

Hormone produced in starved leaves stimulates roots to take up nitrogen

Mutation reduces energy waste in plants

A new analytic method for identifying bioactive compounds in complex plant extracts

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