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“Just like we do research with corn, wheat, soybean, getting these plants to be more efficient in taking up nutrients—nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium—well, there needs to be this research that goes into understanding the mechanisms of metal hyperaccumulation,” says McNear. “And then enhancing that, whether it be through gene editing or whatever.” ARPA-E is eying a … Read more
© June Sharpe / International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) The International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) competition celebrates all things botanical photography, including close-ups, abstract images, and landscape scenes. The winners of the 17th edition have been revealed and are beautiful. The Garden Photographer of the Year was started by the Garden … Read more
Scientists have filmed neighboring plants “chatting” and receiving warning messages from each other in groundbreaking footage. Since the 1980s, scientists have known that neighboring plants communicate with each other as soon as any danger or attack is detected in their vicinity. However, scientists didn’t understand exactly how plants received these warning messages from their neighbors. … Read more
NEW DELHI: Dehradun-based apex national forestry research institution of the environment ministry has developed and released 74 clones and varieties of plantation tree species to improve yield, quality and productivity to meet the domestic demand of wood-based industries and also to increase the carbon sequestration and storage potential of green cover.Clones generally enhance quality green … Read more
High winds from Storm Pia have disrupted holiday travel in northern areas of the U.K. Flights were grounded, train service was suspended and ferries stopped running to islands off Scotland’s west coast on Thursday LONDON — High winds from Storm Pia disrupted holiday travel Thursday in northern areas of the U.K. as flights were grounded, … Read more
It’s beginning to look a lot like a hectic holiday travel season, but it might go relatively smoothly if the weather cooperates. Travel over Christmas and New Year’s tends to spread out over many days, so the peaks in the U.S. are likely to be lower than they were during the Thanksgiving holiday. That is … Read more
A timelapse photographer has documented a pine cone growing into a pine tree over the course of 300 days. The YouTube channel Boxlapse — which primarily makes timelapses of plants growing — posted the pine tree video last week with the photographer explaining how the video came to be. “Last Christmas they sold these stone … Read more
ELMSFORD, N.Y. — When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed out. But on a recent day, Rafferty, the store manager for ShopRite of Elmsford-Greenburgh in New York, was preparing boxes of bread, donuts, fresh produce and dairy products to be picked up by a food bank. … Read more
WASHINGTON: Plants lack visual organs, so how do they know where light comes from? In an original study combining expertise in biology and engineering, the team led by Prof Christian Fankhauser at UNIL, in collaboration with colleagues at EPFL, discovered that a light-sensitive plant tissue uses the optical properties of the interface between air and … Read more
WASHINGTON: Satellite imagery shows progress in the construction in Russia of a plant that will mass produce Iranian-designed kamikaze drones that Moscow is expected to target against Ukrainian energy facilities, a research organization said on Monday. Despite the headway, neither the United States nor its allies have imposed sanctions on the plant’s owner, JSC Alabuga, … Read more