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Plants, Insects Play Cat And Mouse Game
Plants and insects play a far more intricate game than we suspect, says a University of Toronto researcher in the journal Science this month. Likening the game to one of cat and mouse, botany professor Anurag Agrawal suggests that both plants and insects have the inherent ability to adjust their behaviour - going so far as to alter their physiology and chemistry - in reaction to other species.... More
Researchers Pursue Process By Which Oak Trees Contribute To Air Pollution
Trees may not actually commit suicide, but certain species do produce pollutants that hamper their own growth while contributing to global climate changes and causing harm to other life forms, contend two Texas A&M University researchers.... More
Could Improved Wheats Reduce Magnesium Deficiencies?
Newly developed low-phytate breeding lines of wheat have been found to produce flour with 25 percent more magnesium than commercial varieties, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. Varying amounts of magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and other minerals occur naturally in wheat kernels.... More
Plant Respiration Not Just An Evolutionary Leftover, Study Shows
A biological process in plants, thought to be useless and even wasteful, has significant benefits and should not be engineered out -- particularly in the face of looming climate change... More
Gene found that controls stomatal cell growth in plants
"Genes like TMM exist in crop plants such as rice," Sack said. "If TMM has the same function in crop plants that it does in Arabidopsis, then it could be a key regulator." Stomatal cells function as pores on the underside of leaves and control the entry of gases into the leaf for photosynthesis.... More
The Plant Kingdom: From Growing In Snow To 2,500 Tons
The Plant Kingdom is very important to human beings. We need plants to survive. We eat plants. Other animals eat plants. We depend upon plants to provide oxygen for us and take carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere. Plants such as trees give us shade.... More
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