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… BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees …

… of which have salinities 10 times that of seawater. To shed light on the global biogeography in the haloarchaeal gene …

… they’re repurposing abandoned planters, planting donated plants and swapping tips on growing greenery. With … mind, they’re focused on easy-to-maintain, drought tolerant plants that can also provide shelter to pollinators like … “If you want to learn both how to propagate and how to grow plants that are sustainable in many environmental sense, …

… of gene sets associated with functions like stress responses and cellular differentiation. The tough part is …

… communities in carbon cycling, in interactions with plants, and as drivers of methane production, nutrient …

… also have industrial applications, including bioenergy. All plants make terpenoids, which carry out a diverse array of … function of zealexins and related compounds for other plants, including those cultivated for bioenergy. The … pathway may be especially amenable to transfer into other plants because some of its enzymes can transform diverse …

… reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin … which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.” Another outstanding question is whether the new …

… type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon … for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then tested … plant kingdom. Specifically, researchers found that female plants within a species tended to weather pH stress from …

… rig explosion that dumped nearly five million barrels of light crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, …

… secondary metabolites within a lab environment, shining a light into this “biological dark matter.”  It also offers …