News articles tagged with 'plant' (Page 2)
Plasticity of plants helps them adapt to climate change
— 17 Mar 2011 20:14 | EnvironmentThe study, which has been published in Trends in Plant Science, provides an overview of plants' molecular and genetic mechanisms, which is important for ecologists, physiologists and…
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…
Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast
— 15 Mar 2011 20:53 | BiologyIn a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Reunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble…
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…
Host change alters toxic cocktail
— 12 Mar 2011 14:59 | BiologyLeaf beetles fascinate us because of their amazing variety of shapes and rich colouring. Their larvae, however, are dangerous plant pests. Larvae of the leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica…
University of Missouri researcher study provides insight into how corn makes hormones
— 8 Mar 2011 14:14 | BiologyIt's a corn plant only a geneticist could love, but an MU researcher has found a way to help scientists love it…
Protecting ecosystems, pollution remediation goals of research at UH
— 7 Mar 2011 17:13 | EnvironmentCleaning up pollution, protecting soil from erosion and maintaining species-rich ecosystems are some of the goals of a computational ecology project by a University of Houston (UH)…
Solving a traditional Chinese medicine mystery
— 4 Mar 2011 16:18 | HealthResearchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered that a natural product isolated from a traditional Chinese medicinal plant commonly known as thunder god vine, or…
Rising CO2 is causing plants to release less water to the atmosphere, researchers say
— 4 Mar 2011 16:09 | EnvironmentAs carbon dioxide levels have risen during the last 150 years, the density of pores that allow plants to breathe has dwindled by 34 percent, restricting the amount of water vapour the…
Using wastewater to enhance mint production
— 4 Mar 2011 15:15 | EnvironmentWhen essential oils are extracted from plants through the process of steam distillation, wastewater is produced and subsequently released into rivers and streams. Finding new uses for…