News articles tagged with 'Arabidopsis'
Rejuvenating electron microscopy
— 6 Apr 2011 15:49 | BiologyModifying a protein from a plant much favoured by science, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have created a new type of genetic…
Production of mustard oils: On the origin of an enzyme
— 17 Mar 2011 19:14 | BiologyPlants are continually exposed to herbivore attack. To defend themselves, they have developed sophisticated chemical defence mechanisms. Plants of the mustard family, such as thale…
Seedless cherimoya, the next banana?
— 15 Mar 2011 19:44 | BiologyMark Twain called it 'the most delicious fruit known to man.' But the cherimoya, or custard apple, and its close relations the sugar apple and soursop, also have lots of big, awkward…
Plants cloned as seeds
— 18 Feb 2011 17:14 | BiologyPlants have for the first time been cloned as seeds. The research by aUC Davis plant scientists and their international collaborators, published Feb. 18 in the journal Science, is a…
Plant's immune defence revs up for the morning attack
— 4 Feb 2011 15:37 | BiologyTiming is everything in the long-standing arms race between the flowering plant Arabidopsis and Hyaloperonospora, a downy mildew pathogen…
Plants can adapt genetically to survive harsh environments
— 1 Feb 2011 21:42 | EnvironmentA Purdue University scientist has found genetic evidence of how some plants adapt to live in unfavourable conditions, a finding he believes could one day be used to help food crops…
What 'pine' cones reveal about the evolution of flowers
— 14 Dec 2010 20:57 | BiologyFrom southern Africa's pineapple lily to Western Australia's swamp bottlebrush, flowering plants are everywhere. Also called angiosperms, they make up 90 percent of all land-based,…
How pathogens hijack host plants
— 24 Nov 2010 22:54 | BiologyInfestation by bacteria and other pathogens result in global crop losses of over $500 billion annually. A research team led by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology…
In fending off diseases, plants and animals are much the same, research shows
— 19 Nov 2010 12:35 | BiologyIt may have been 1 billion years since plants and animals branched apart on the evolutionary tree but down through the ages they have developed strikingly similar mechanisms for detecting…
Fertility or powdery mildew resistance?
— 13 Nov 2010 09:47 | BiologyPowdery mildew is a fungus that infects both crop and ornamental plants. Each year, powdery mildew and other plant pathogens cause immense crop loss. Despite decades of intense research,…