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Latin American rice breeding gets a boost from genomic tools

How do you like your rice? Sticky, fluffy, brown, or white? These qualities, in addition to grain length, width, appearance, and other traits, are hugely important predictors of rice sales and consumption worldwide. And region matters. Rice preferences in Latin…

Isabel08/12/2021

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Studying plant’s protective hair reveals metabolic innovation

Plants are master chemists, producing a dazzling array of molecules that are valuable to humans, including vitamins, pharmaceuticals and flavorings. The largest and most diverse group of molecules are known as specialized metabolites. Some metabolites attract beneficial insects and others…

Isabel07/12/2021

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Planting New Forests with High Functional Diversity Helps Improve Productivity

As forests age, differences in species functional traits become more important and reliable in predicting forest productivity, according to an international study.

Isabel06/12/2021

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Comparing photosynthetic differences between wild and domesticated rice

Millions of people in Asia are dependent on rice as a food source. Believed to have been domesticated as early as 6000 BCE, rice is an important source of calories globally. In a new study, researchers compared domesticated rice to its…

Isabel03/12/2021

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Quillwort genome highlights divergences in aquatic CAM photosynthesis

The humble quillworts are an ancient group of about 250 small, aquatic plants that have largely been ignored by modern botanists. A group of researchers have sequenced the first quillwort genome and uncovered some secrets of the plant’s unique method…

Isabel02/12/2021

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Latin American rice breeding gets a boost from genomic tools

Studying plant’s protective hair reveals metabolic innovation

Planting New Forests with High Functional Diversity Helps Improve Productivity

Comparing photosynthetic differences between wild and domesticated rice

Quillwort genome highlights divergences in aquatic CAM photosynthesis

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