Plant Research (Environment and Climate)

 

New habitats affect plant defense

Populations of ribwort plantain outside their original range are just as well defended as native populations, and in some cases even better more

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Foods enriched with micronutrients can improve people's nutrition more

Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) is also encountered on Germany's coasts, for example on Helgoland. The researchers from Bremen conducted their investigations in Finland. 

Brown algae could remove up to 0.55 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year more

Resin secreted by a damaged conifer.

Researchers develop a highly sensitive novel technique capable of detecting chiral molecules within complex gas mixtures more

The thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)

Discovery that plants protect their most essential genes transforms our view of evolution more

Belowground microbial solutions to aboveground plant problems

Signalling occurring from the response of plant leaves to light and plant roots to microbes is integrated along a microbiota-root-shoot axis more

Balanced nutrition supply reduces water uptake in plants

Nitrogen may boost plant productivity, but the imbalance with phosphor reduces water use efficiency. more

Trailblazer in conservation biology

Jana Wäldchen of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry on the British biodiversity researcher and conservation biologist Georgina Mace more

Origins of the European potato

Plants collected by Darwin have helped reveal the ancestry of European potatoes more

Leaf molecules as markers for mycorrhiza

Metabolites in above-ground parts of a plant reveal a plant’s successful mutualism with mycorrhizal fungi more

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Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) is also encountered on Germany's coasts, for example on Helgoland. The researchers from Bremen conducted their investigations in Finland. 

Brown algae could remove up to 0.55 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year more

Resin secreted by a damaged conifer.

Researchers develop a highly sensitive novel technique capable of detecting chiral molecules within complex gas mixtures more

The thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)

Discovery that plants protect their most essential genes transforms our view of evolution more

Balanced nutrition supply reduces water uptake in plants

Nitrogen may boost plant productivity, but the imbalance with phosphor reduces water use efficiency. more

Origins of the European potato

Plants collected by Darwin have helped reveal the ancestry of European potatoes more

Leaf molecules as markers for mycorrhiza

Metabolites in above-ground parts of a plant reveal a plant’s successful mutualism with mycorrhizal fungi more

Marine microalgae: an address plaque for calcium

A biochemical mechanism controls which nanostructures are formed in calcite-forming microorganisms more

Flourishing vegetation increases carbon dioxide amplitude

The difference between the annual minimum and maximum concentrations of carbon dioxide (the amplitude) is increasing as plant productivity improves, particularly in northern ecosystems. more

At least 40,000 tree species in the tropical forests

Study surprises with new numbers: forests of the Indo-Pacific region are as rich in species as the tropics in America more

Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata): On average 40 to 50 cm2 of leaf material are eaten by each of the beetles’ larvae. Infestation with Colorado potato beetles can result in crop losses up to 50 per cent, if there is no pest control.

RNA interference protects potato plants against herbivore attack more

<p>Blossoming partnership with a root</p>

The symbiosis by which nodule bacteria make atmospheric nitrogen available for plants has very likely exactly one evolutionary origin, about 100 million years ago more

At the methane source of plants

Plants produce greenhouse gas from the amino acid methionine more

Ants protect acacia plants against pathogens

Researchers discover an additional level of this insect-plant symbiosis more

Methane source discovered in the underbrush

The greenhouse gas methane is also released by fungi more

Production of mustard oils: on the orgin of an enzyme<strong></strong><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0d4d7b;"></span>

During the evolution of plants of the mustard family a leucine producing enzyme mutated into an enzyme that protects plants against herbivores more

Barley genes against drought

With many regions of the world becoming more arid as a result of the climate change, the crop yield also decreases. New types of crops should therefore be more resistant to aridity. more

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