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Researchers investigating the ways that plants protect themselves -- from insects to pathogens -- have discovered an ''on-off'' switch that controls plant defensive mechanisms....
Science sweetens stingless bee species honey health claims
Examination of honey from five different stingless bee species across Neotropical and Indo-Australian regions has enabled for the first time the identification of the...
Invasive lionfish may be a selective predator
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COVID-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output
As the air cleared after lockdowns, solar installations in Delhi produced 8 percent more power, a new study shows.
Site-directed mutagenesis in wheat via haploid induction by maize
Site-directed mutagenesis facilitates the experimental validation of gene function and can speed up plant breeding by producing new biodiversity or by reproducing previously known...
Arizona rock core sheds light on Triassic dark ages
A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth's ecosystems...
Soil microbes could promote better farm outputs
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Portable DNA device can detect tree pests in under two hours
A new rapid DNA detection method can identify forest pests and pathogens like Asian gypsy moths and white pine blister rust in less than...
COVID-19 lockdown reduced dangerous air pollutants in five Indian cities by up to 54...
The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown measures have led to a dramatic reduction of harmful air pollutants across major cities in India, a new...
New study shows how plants regulate their growth-inhibiting hormones to survive
Scientists have, for the first time, observed one of the natural mechanisms underlying the regulation of the levels of growth inhibiting hormone in plants....
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