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Researchers publish new epigenetic editing technique to improve crops

Cassava is one of the most important crops in the tropics, feeding half a billion people in more than 80 countries. Cassava bacterial blight (CBB) is a devastating disease that causes crop losses worldwide. Research demonstrated that a new technology,…

Isabel09/03/2023

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Documenting plant organ development

Delving deeper into organ development requires long-term monitoring of organ growth. Researchers have designed a novel approach that they employed to characterise growing leaves. Over several weeks scientists photographed more than 1,000 leaves at varying developmental stages. By applying targeted…

Isabel07/03/2023

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Scientists Estimate Carbon Stored in African Dryland Trees

Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, an international team mapped almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands to assess the amount of carbon stored outside of the continent’s dense tropical forests. The result is the first comprehensive…

Isabel06/03/2023

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Water pores in leaves proven to be part of plant’s defence system against pathogens

How do plants defend themselves against pathogenic micro-organisms? This is a complex puzzle, of which a team of biologists has solved a new piece. They discovered that while the water pores (hydathodes) in leaves provide an entry point for bacteria,…

Isabel03/03/2023

Agriculture News Plant Science

Strengthening Sorghum Against a Worldwide Fungal Threat

A gene discovered could help fortify the defenses of sorghum to anthracnose, a disease of the cereal grain crop that can inflict yield losses of up to 50 percent.

Isabel02/03/2023

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Researchers publish new epigenetic editing technique to improve crops

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