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Researcher Discovers Pathway Plants Use to Fight Back Against Pathogens

Biology /

created Mar 31, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Plants are not only smart, but they also wage a good fight, according to a University of Missouri biochemist. Previous studies have shown that plants can sense attacks by pathogens and activate their defenses. However, it ...


Understanding Natural Crop Defenses

Understanding Natural Crop Defenses

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma: use limited resources to out-compete their neighbors for light to grow, or, invest directly in defense against hungry ...


Bill limits Fed power to protect species

Other Sciences /

created Sep 20, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The chairman of the House Resources Committee has introduced a bill in Washington to limit federal powers to protect endangered species.


Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity

Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography isolated from an ocean-living fungus a compound that has since shown the ability to kill cancer cells in the lab. ...


Study analyzes 2006 California heat wave's substantial effect on morbidity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An extreme heat wave affected much of the state of California during mid- to late July 2006, breaking daily maximum temperature records in many regions of the State. A study conducted by researchers from the Mailman School ...


Humanity would need five Earths to create the resources needed if everyone lived as like Americans, a report has stated

Mankind using Earth's resources at alarming rate

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (23) | comments 74

Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday.


Study finds new relationship between gene duplication and alternative splicing in plants

Study finds new relationship between gene duplication and alternative splicing in plants

Biology / Biotechnology

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

University of Georgia scientists looking to understand the genetic mechanisms of plant defense and growth have found for the first time in plants an inverse relationship between gene duplication and alternative ...


Novel research to root out how microbes affect rice plants

Novel research to root out how microbes affect rice plants

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plants that live in the soil don't live alone -- a mere teaspoon of soil teems with an estimated billion microscopic organisms.


Emergency response

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disasters are getting worse it seems but the federal government's preparedness has been limited to helping after a disaster has occurred. On the other hand, local organizations often do not have the resources or the training ...


Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, science (AP)

Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, science

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 17

(AP) -- President Barack Obama's commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread ...



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