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AI reveals hidden traits about our planet’s flora to help save species

Scientists have trained AI to unlock data from millions of plant specimens kept in herbaria around the world, to study and combat the impacts of climate change on flora.

Isabel12/07/2023

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Adapting to climate change: Researchers find natural gene variant that allows barley to flower earlier

A tiny mutation in the genetic material of barley ensures that those plants develop faster and thus flower earlier than established barley varieties. At the same time, plant yields remain the same. According to the researchers, this is advantageous as…

Isabel10/07/2023

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Adding silicon to soil could help protect canola from clubroot

Adding silicon to soil could help protect canola from clubroot. Treatment may also help crops weather drought and extreme heat, researchers find.

Isabel07/07/2023

Image: Image of a strawberry plant adorned with mature strawberries in the foreground, accompanied by budding fruits and green leaves. Credit: Katharina N. / Pixabay

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New method traces ancestry of hybrid plants and animals

Hybrids -- common in agriculture as well as in nature -- have chromosomes from two or more parent species. In some cases, including strawberries, goldfish and several other species, these disparate parental chromosomes become doubled, a condition known as allopolyploidy.…

Isabel06/07/2023

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Cover crops contribute to soil health, study shows

Worldwide, farmers are being challenged with a variety of issues, including growing populations, a changing climate and soil degradation, among many others. To combat these challenges, researchers are looking for solutions and have begun to focus their work on the…

Isabel04/07/2023

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AI reveals hidden traits about our planet’s flora to help save species

Adapting to climate change: Researchers find natural gene variant that allows barley to flower earlier

Adding silicon to soil could help protect canola from clubroot

New method traces ancestry of hybrid plants and animals

Cover crops contribute to soil health, study shows

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