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Plant chloroplasts promise potential therapy for Huntington’s disease

A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases / new research may have found a way to “copy” the mechanism for application in human cells.

Isabel25/10/2023

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A few essential genetic differences tailor flowers to bee or hummingbird pollinators

Plants that rely on animal pollinators, such as insects or birds, have evolved distinctive suites of flower characteristics—known as "pollination syndromes"—that are tailored to the pollinator. Large differences in flower characteristics between wildflowers with different pollinators are achieved by a…

Isabel24/10/2023

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Genetically engineering associations between plants and nitrogen-fixing microbes could lessen dependence on synthetic fertilizer

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, but the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture is not sustainable. In a review article a team of bacteriologists and plant scientists discuss the possibility of using genetic engineering to facilitate…

Isabel23/10/2023

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Researchers Show Consequences Of Inaction on Devastating Banana Disease

Lurking inside the crops of banana-producing-areas in east and central Africa is a disease called Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW)—and new modeling has shown that if left uncontrolled, this bacterial disease could cause a 55% reduction in banana production in newly…

Isabel20/10/2023

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How plants respond to environmental threats with proper defense

In plants, the jasmonate (JA) signaling pathway helps plants control their defense responses to environmental stresses. Like the human body, plants respond differently to individual threats. Just as people wouldn’t get a fever due to a sprained ankle, plants deal…

Isabel19/10/2023

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Plant chloroplasts promise potential therapy for Huntington’s disease

A few essential genetic differences tailor flowers to bee or hummingbird pollinators

Genetically engineering associations between plants and nitrogen-fixing microbes could lessen dependence on synthetic fertilizer

Researchers Show Consequences Of Inaction on Devastating Banana Disease

How plants respond to environmental threats with proper defense

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