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Earth Sciences Mar 24, 2024

Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow. Here's what that could mean for your garden

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed packs and benches are filled ...

Agriculture Feb 21, 2024

New tool helps users track fruit-plant readiness for growing season

Purdue University's Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC) has launched its new interactive chilling hours tool. Growers now can more closely monitor accumulated chilling hours, an important factor that tracks how long ...

Biotechnology Feb 6, 2024

Berry tasty: The fruits emerging from new breeding and processing

Research is helping strawberries and raspberries become more resilient to climate change and snacks become healthier.

Biochemistry Dec 11, 2023

Soybean oil production residue can be used to make product that treats symptoms of menopause

Consuming soy foods is often said to be good for women's health, and much research has been conducted in recent decades to find out whether it can explain why Asian women, whose diet contains plenty of soy foods, have few ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 15, 2023

Study examines the hard reality that no pollen means no seeds

North Carolina State University researchers have successfully transferred an important gene from one compartment of a plant cell to another to produce tobacco plants that lack pollen and viable seeds, while otherwise growing ...

Plants & Animals Aug 8, 2023

Ivy, dandelions and other common wildflowers are a crucial resource for pollinating insects

Since the end of the second world war, factors such as more intensive farming and urbanization have reduced the abundance of wildflowers in Britain. In fact, the past 90 years have seen the loss of over 97% of the UK's wildflower ...

Ecology Jun 16, 2023

Bees and hoverflies are key to growing more fruit and veg in cities—new research

Accessing affordable fruit and vegetables is a significant challenge for the 1.2 million UK residents living in what are known as "food deserts."

Plants & Animals Apr 20, 2023

What role do forests play as a feeding habitat for honeybees?

Bees are generally associated with flowering meadows rather than with dense forests. Woodland, however, is considered the original habitat of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera), as it offers nesting sites in the form of ...

Plants & Animals Mar 31, 2023

Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees, shows new research

Moths are more efficient pollinators at night than day-flying pollinators such as bees, finds new research from the University of Sussex, published March 29 in PLOS ONE.

Environment Mar 16, 2023

Floods fill some of California's summer strawberry fields

As river water gushed through a broken levee, thousands of people in a California farming town were forced to evacuate as their homes were flooded and businesses destroyed.

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