News tagged with mustard plant
New canola strain takes the 'evil' out of 'weevil'
Jul 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A strain of canola that could save farmers millions of dollars per year in crop losses and insecticide costs has been developed in part by a University of Alberta researcher.
Midget plant gets makeover
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A tiny plant with a long name (Arabidopsis thaliana) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for food, biofuels, industrial materials, and ne ...
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Over time, an invasive plant loses its toxic edge
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Like most invasive plants introduced to the U.S. from Europe and other places, garlic mustard first found it easy to dominate the natives. A new study indicates that eventually, however, its primary weapon ...
Predicting the perfect predator
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Garlic mustard has become an invasive species in temperate forests across the United States, choking out native plants on forest floors and threatening ecosystem diversity. University of Illinois ecologist Adam Davis has ...
Mustard seed meal suppresses weeds in container-grown ornamentals
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Sep 29, 2008 |
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Mustard is one of the most widely used condiments on the planet. Prized for its oils, mustard plants grow wild in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, and is grown commercially in the United Kingdom, Canada, ...
Researchers identify genes key to hormone production in plants
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have pinpointed a small group of genes responsible for “telling” plants when, where and how to produce a hormone that is key to their development. Their findings ...
Aphids make 'chemical weapons' to fight off killer ladybirds
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Jul 11, 2007 |
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Cabbage aphids have developed an internal chemical defence system which enables them to disable attacking predators by setting off a mustard oil ‘bomb’, says new research published today.
Researcher identifies genetic pathway responsible for much of plant growth
May 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a previously unknown pathway in plant cells that regulates plant growth.
New Keys to Keeping a Diverse Planet
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Sep 25, 2007 |
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Variation in plants and animals gives us a rich and robust assemblage of foods, medicines, industrial materials and recreation activities. But human activities are eliminating biological diversity at an unprecedented rate.
Controlling a sea of information
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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Curators at one of the world’s most widely used biological databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, or TAIR, have joined forces with the journal Plant Physiology, to solve the “flood of information” dilemma. It is ...
Researchers root out new and efficient crop plants
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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A part of the global food crisis is the inefficiency of current irrigation methods. More irrigated water evaporates than reaches the roots of crops, amounting to an enormous waste of water and energy.
Same gene protects from 1 disease, opens door to another
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Aug 28, 2007 |
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Botanists at Oregon State University have discovered that a single plant gene can cause resistance to one disease at the same time it produces susceptibility to a different disease – the first time this unusual phenomenon ...
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