News articles tagged with 'flowering'
Fossil is best look yet at an ancestor of buttercups
— 1 Apr 2011 15:54 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists from the United States and China have discovered the first intact fossil of a mature eudicot, a type of flowering plant whose membership includes buttercups, apple trees,…
Pollen also appears outside flowering season
— 19 Mar 2011 14:59 | Biology'There is of course a very close relationship between the moment at which pollen is released by plants and the data gathered by the traps used to measure these grains, but this is not…
New discovery about how flowering time of plants can be controlled
— 8 Dec 2010 18:20 | BiologyResearchers at Umea Plant Science Centre in Sweden discovered, in collaboration with the Syngenta company, a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. The discovery…
Ecologists find new clues on climate change in 150-year-old pressed plants
— 22 Sep 2010 11:25 | BiologyPlants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbarium collections across the world could become a powerful - and much needed - new source of…
Wacky weather could squeeze Florida's citrus season
— 22 Jul 2010 09:47 | EnvironmentCitrus growers, beware. Florida winters are getting more extreme, causing plants to flower later and potentially shrinking the growing seasons for some of the state's most vital crops…
Thousands of undiscovered plant species face extinction
— 8 Jul 2010 09:30 | BiologyFaced with threats such as habitat loss and climate change, thousands of rare flowering plant species worldwide may become extinct before scientists can even discover them, according…
Changing climate could alter meadows' ecosystems, says ISU researcher
— 7 Jul 2010 12:51 | EnvironmentChanging climate could affect the diversity of plants and animals, and we can get a glimpse of what this may look like by studying the effects of drought in a relatively pristine ecosystem,…
UK geneticists shed light on flowering plants
— 30 Jun 2010 14:54 | BiologyA team of researchers from Warwick have isolated a gene responsible for regulating the expression of CONSTANS, an important inducer of flowering, in Arabidopsis…
Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter
— 17 Jun 2010 13:27 | BiologyThe world is a cooler, wetter place because of flowering plants, according to new climate simulation results published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The effect…
University experts prove British summer is advancing
— 7 May 2010 09:55 | EnvironmentThe onset of summer in England has been advancing since the mid 1950s, research from a pair of University of Sheffield geographers has shown…