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All Articles Tagged As: plants
 | Iowa State University researchers are working to understand how a catalyst allows certain plants and algae to create simple hydrocarbons that could be a new source of liquid fuels. The project is supported by a four-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena discovered a new form of electrical signaling in different plant species. This electrical signal -- called "system potential" -- is induced by wounding of the plant tissue and then passed from leaf to leaf. ...> Full Article |
 | Plants, genetically modified to ease the breaking down of their woody material, could be the key to a cheaper and greener way of making ethanol, according to researchers who add that the approach could also help turn agricultural waste into food for livestock. ...> Full Article |
Researchers found that when leaves of the model plant Arabidopsis are wounded, cell division in the apical meristem is reduced, growth of the plant is arrested within days, and the new leaves grow to only one-half of their normal size although the size of leaf cells is unaffected.
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 | Could be used to improve disease resistance and/or tailor plants for the production of biofuels or other useful chemical feedstocks ...> Full Article |
Damage to plants seems to regulate its ability to trap energy from sunlight
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Some soil microorganisms are capable of forging associations with plant roots in the form of symbioses.
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A team of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded scientists at the University of Essex has discovered a new mechanism that slows the process of carbon dioxide fixation in plants.
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 | Preventing Alzheimer's disease is a goal of Raphael Kopan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology at the Washington University School of Medicine. The moss plant Physcomitrella patens studied in the laboratory of Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor and chair of the biology department on WUSTL's Danforth Campus, might inch Kopan toward that goal. Here's how. ...> Full Article |
 | Removing sediment and reducing industrial runoff into Moreton Bay will not only help control fireweed but improve the general health of the Bay, UQ research shows. ...> Full Article |
Sugars made by plants are rapidly used by microbes living in their roots, according to new research at the University of York, creating a short cut in the carbon cycle that is vital to life on earth.
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 | Although plants lack humans' T cells and other immune-function cells to signal and fight infection, scientists have known for more than 100 years that plants still somehow signal that they have been attacked in order to trigger a plantwide resistance. Now, researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) on the Cornell campus have identified the elusive signal in the process: methyl salicylate, an aspirin-like compound that alerts a plant's immune system to shift into high gear. ...> Full Article |
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding the genetic processes that give flowers, leaves and plants their bright colors. The knowledge could lead to a range of benefits, including better understanding of the cancer-fighting properties of plant pigments and new, natural food colorings.
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 | Scientists create a three-dimensional snapshot of the enzyme basil eugenol synthase frozen in mid-action as it produces eugenol, the molecule responsible for basil's spicy overtones reminiscent of cloves and cinnamon. ...> Full Article |
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