Tag: research

Potatoes have received a key health boost on the back of a major research project recently completed by staff at ...

While phosphorus is an essential element for plant metabolism and growth, its future supply under elevated levels of atmospheric carbon ...

In living organisms, development is a combination of multiple coordinated processes that interact in time and space over the course ...

Chloroplasts of algae and plants are the cellular engines that convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis. These organelles, ...

For thousands of years, crops have been shaped by domestication processes. Farmers cross-breed and select new varieties, adapted to constantly ...

How do plants defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms? This is a complex puzzle, of which a team of biologists from the ...

A new conceptual framework for incorporating the way plants use carbon and water, or plant dynamics, into fine-scale computer models ...

At a time when climate change is making many areas of the planet hotter and drier, it's sobering to think ...

In the 21st century, "collaboration" has become a popular buzzword, but effectively working together across disciplines and countries is easier ...

Legume plants do not depend on externally supplied nitrogen, because they can form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, called rhizobia. The ...