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One's Trash, Another's Treasure: Fertilizer Made from Urine Could Enable Space Agriculture

Dec. 14, 2020 — From the perspective of future societies, in extremely closed environments such as a space station, self-sufficiency in food cultivation and waste ...

Male Weeds May Hold Key to Their Own Demise

Dec. 11, 2020 — Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of the most troublesome agricultural weeds in the US. Finding the genes could enable new 'genetic ...

Temporal Crop Diversity Stabilizes Agricultural Production

Dec. 9, 2020 — Securing food supplies around the globe is a challenge facing humanity, especially in light of the predicted increase in the world's population and the effects of climate change. Greater crop ...

Tomatoes Offer Affordable Source of Parkinson's Disease Drug

Dec. 9, 2020 — Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson's disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a new, affordable source of one of the world's essential ...

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SMART Researchers Design Portable Device for Fast Detection of Plant Stress

Dec. 8, 2020 — Researchers have designed a portable optical sensor that allows rapid monitoring of plant stress - a new tool to help farmers and plant scientists with early diagnosis and real-time plant health ...

How Bean Plants Fend Off Famished Foes

Dec. 4, 2020 — Scientists have discovered that cowpeas -- a type of bean plant -- harbor receptors on the surface of their cells that can detect a compound in caterpillar saliva and initiate anti-herbivore ...

How Plants Compete for Underground Real Estate Affects Climate Change and Food Production

Dec. 3, 2020 — How do plant roots store carbon? Researchers found that the energy a plant devotes to its roots depends on proximity to other plants: when close ...

Replacing Red Meat With Plant Foods May Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease

Dec. 2, 2020 — Replacing red meat with high quality plant foods such as beans, nuts, or soy may be associated with a modestly reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), suggests a new ...

Plant-Inspired Alkaloids Protect Rice, Kiwi and Citrus from Harmful Bacteria

Dec. 2, 2020 — Plants get bacterial infections, just as humans do. When food crops and trees are infected, their yield and quality can suffer. Although some ...

Scientists Uncover the Mysterious Origin of Canal Grass in Panama

Dec. 1, 2020 — How did canal grass arrive in Panama? Scientists compared the DNA of sugar cane relatives from around the world to find ...

Tweaking Carotenoid Genes Helps Tomatoes Bring Their A-Game

Dec. 1, 2020 — Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba demonstrated that Target-AID gene editing technology can be used to simultaneously introduce single-base changes into multiple genes in tomatoes. Using ...

New Wheat and Barley Genomes Will Help Feed the World

Nov. 25, 2020 — Scientists have unlocked a new genetic variation in wheat and barley - a major boost for the global effort in breeding higher-yielding wheat and barley ...

Ancient Blanket Made With 11,500 Turkey Feathers

Nov. 25, 2020 — New research sheds light on the production of an 800-year-old turkey feather blanket and explores the economic and cultural aspects of raising turkeys to supply feathers in the ancient ...