Plant Biology News

Police officers were dispatched to Philp St, Hermit Park on Saturday about 2pm after a resident reported hearing the sound of an air rifle being fired.

I'm not a wagering man, nonetheless I'm willing to bet that 99 and 44/100 percent of you have never eaten a "real" cantaloupe.

For over 120 years, The New York Botanical Garden has served as a natural Haven for New York City dwellers and out-of-town visitors alike.

It is now well established that jasmonates, originally identified as the major component of jasmine scent, play a universal role in the plant kingdom and are involved in the regulation of diverse aspects of plant biology, including growth, development, metabolism, and interaction with the environment.

This chapter discusses the ecological implications of dividing plants in groups with distinct photosynthetic production capacities.

Plant ecologist Lyn Baldwin and visual artist Ila Crawford don't need to ask that question.

Map-based cloning is an iterative approach that identifies the underlying genetic cause of a mutant phenotype.

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A TOP academic who has raised more than A 1 million in research grants is to take a leading role at a York university.

Genotyping with large numbers of molecular markers is now an indispensable tool within plant genetics and breeding.

Flora alert in heat-cursed, concrete jungles - Flowering plants & ferns doing vanishing act from Chotanagpur Plateau region, find RU botanists Unplanned urbanisation and reckless deforestation are not just killing, but wiping out species after species of plants in the Chotanagpur Plateau region, particularly in Ranchi and Latehar.

In his greenhouse, hundreds of cacti and succulents grow everywhere possible -- in pots, out of the rocky ground and under the tables.

Silver City, N.M. >> The Department of Natural Sciences at Western New Mexico University offers students the unique opportunity to earn bachelor degrees in either Botany or Zoology.

If you are wandering through a paddock out in Pine Grove, you may stumble upon the newly named plant, the Maireana obrienii .

The Ridges Sanctuary kicked off a $3.5 million campaign to raise money for the construction of its new visitor facility in Baileys Harbor.

Improvement of salt and waterlogging tolerance in wheat: comparative physiology of Hordeum marinum - Triticum aestivum amphiploids with their H. marinum and wheat parents Saud A. Alamri A B C , Edward G. Barrett-Lennard A B , Natasha L. Teakle A B E and Timothy D. Colmer A D F A School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 ... (more)

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Modern medicine owes a great debt to botany. Plants exploited by ancient apothecaries have given rise to more complex and effective cures, and alkaloids isolated from natural herbs have found their way into the neat little pills people get from the pharmacy today.

A keynote address at a botanical conference at TRU on Sunday will explore the possibility of using more plants and plant compounds as medicines.

To gain a better understanding on structure, chemical composition and properties of plant cells, tissues and organs several microscopic, chemical and physical methods have been applied during the last years.