Grass found in Baltic amber
Amber researc has produced the first definite identification of grass in fossilized tree resin from the Baltic region, home to the world's most well-known...
Switching roles: Key proteins evolved from activators to maintainers in plants
Researchers have found that the ancestral role of the proteins KNOX and BELL is activation of zygote development in a model basal land plant...
Study links air pollution to nearly 6 million preterm births around the world
Air pollution likely contributed to almost 6 million premature births and almost 3 million underweight babies in 2019, according to a global burden of...
Impact of human settlement on island ecosystems
Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on islands' biodiversity. The findings show how human colonization altered forest across the islands...
The defensive arsenal of plant roots
Plants adapt to their nutritional needs by modifying the permeability of their roots through the production or degradation of a cork-like layer called suberin....
Non-native fish are main consumers of salmon in reservoirs
When warmwater fish species like bass, walleye and crappie that are not native to the Pacific Northwest, but prized by some anglers, overlap with...
An ‘evolutionary rescue route’ towards coexistence of competitive plant species
In nature, plant species having the same pollinators experience 'reproductive interference' owing to competition, and their coexistence is thought to be possible only through...
Four dinosaurs discovered in Montana
A team of paleontologists excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this summer. The four dinosaur fossils are: the ilium -- or hip bones --...
The microbial molecule that turns plants into ‘zombies’
A newly discovered manipulation mechanism used by parasitic bacteria to slow down plant aging, may offer new ways to protect disease-threatened food crops. Research...
Researchers discover hormonal regulatory module for root elongation
Plants respond to mild nitrogen deficiency by elongating their lateral roots. In this way, more nitrogen can be absorbed than before. Researchers have now...
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