Archived News Articles

• Better anchor roots help crops grow in poor soils
• Identifying a plant cell barrier to breeding more nutritious crops
• A new tomato ideal for urban gardens and even outer space
• Study reveals a role for jumping genes during times of stress
• Understanding Asteraceae: Validation of a Hyb-Seq probe set for evolutionary studies
• New study identifies barriers to conservation success
• In a warming world, glacier scientists have to keep going higher
• The gut may be the ticket to reducing chemo’s side effects
• Study shows some aquatic plants depend on the landscape for photosynthesis
• Plants might be helping each other more than thought
• Evidence found of magnetic reconnection generating spicules on the sun
• Genes borrowed from bacteria allowed plants to move to land
• Zero gravity made some astronauts’ blood flow backwards
• Discovery of 'master switch' for the communication process between chloroplast and nuclei of plants
• Scientists uncover a link between RNA editing and chloroplast-to-nucleus communication
• Researchers describe how Vitamin E works in plants under extreme conditions
• Game changer: New chemical keeps plants plump
• Using the power of nature against bacteria
• NIH and Gates Foundation lay out ambitious plan to bring gene-based treatments for HIV and sickle cell disease to Africa
• High blood pressure medications work better at bedtime