News tagged with environmental conditions
Plentiful poinsettias without PGRs
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Poinsettias can be a lucrative crop for ornamental plant growers, particularly during the Christmas season. In the temperate regions of the southern hemisphere, where poinsettias are grown for both export ...
Bacteria expect the unexpected: Scientists observe the emergence of a new adaptation strategy
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Organisms ensure the survival of their species by genetically adapting to the environment. If environmental conditions change too rapidly, the extinction of a species may be the consequence. A strategy to ...
Paleoecologists offer new insight into how climate change will affect organisms
Nov 04, 2009 |
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An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science written by a team of ecologists, including Robert Booth, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh University, examines some of the po ...
Studies examine how living conditions impact reproductive health
Sep 28, 2009 |
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When costs outweigh benefits, successful pregnancies are less likely to occur.
New computing tool could lead to better crops and pesticides say researchers
Sep 22, 2009 |
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A new computing tool that could help scientists predict how plants will react to different environmental conditions in order to create better crops, such as tastier and longer lasting tomatoes, is being developed ...
Evolution coup: Study reveals how plants protect their genes
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Unlike animals and humans, plants can't run and hide when exposed to stressful environmental conditions. So how do plants survive? A new Université de Montréal study, published in the journal Proceedings of ...
Global warming causes outbreak of rare algae associated with corals, study finds
Sep 09, 2009 |
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A rare opportunity has allowed a team of biologists to evaluate corals and the essential, photosynthetic algae that live inside their cells before, during, and after a period in 2005 when global warming caused ...
Plastics in oceans decompose, release hazardous chemicals, surprising new study says
Aug 19, 2009 |
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In the first study to look at what happens over the years to the billions of pounds of plastic waste floating in the world's oceans, scientists are reporting that plastics -- reputed to be virtually indestructible ...
Unraveling how cells respond to low oxygen
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Gary Chiang, Ph.D., and colleagues at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have elucidated how the stability of the REDD1 protein is regulated. The REDD1 protein is a critical inhibitor of the mTOR signaling pathway, ...
Environmental cues control reproductive timing and longevity
Jun 25, 2009 |
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When humans and animals delay reproduction because food or other resources are scarce, they may live longer to increase the impact of reproduction, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers published ...
Under the weather: Early-life rainfall has lasting effect on Indonesian women
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new University of ...
Debunking myths about warm-ups, eggs
May 29, 2009 |
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There are so many things to worry about these days. Wouldn't it be nice to cross something off the list? Turns out you can. Researchers have been busy debunking some common medical myths that have been repeated so many times, ...
No consistent advantage for planting soybean early
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Planting soybean on the optimum date produces maximum yield and profit without increasing production costs. Unfortunately, the optimum planting date is hard to indentify, because it varies from year to year, depending on ...
First evidence that prenatal exposure to famine may lead to persistent epigenetic changes
Oct 30, 2008 |
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A study initiated by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands suggests that prenatal exposure to famine can lead to epigenetic changes ...
