News tagged with plant diseases


Portable kit may one day detect plant disease before disastrous outbreak

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

This science may literally be outside the box: A briefcase-sized kit is carried to a field where thousands of tons of food are growing. The search is for microorganisms that could infect and kill the plants, wreaking havoc ...





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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...


Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes (AP)

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...


Study shows link between influenza virus and fever

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One feature of the "new influenza" is a sudden rise in temperature. Up to now it was not exactly understood how this reaction occurs. Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have ...


With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What life form can use materials as nutrients that we, and most other animals, would consider waste products?


New explanation for nature's hardiest life form

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Got food poisoning? The cause might be bacterial spores, en extremely hardy survival form of bacteria, a nightmare for health care and the food industry and an enigma for scientists. Spore-forming bacteria, present almost ...


Iowa State University researcher discovers key to vital DNA, protein interaction

Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein interaction

Biology / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist ...


Researchers complete draft genome sequence for cassava

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of academic, government and industry researchers has completed a first draft of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) genome. The project is an important first step in accelerating the pace of research on this subsistence ...


Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields ...


Study reveals how plants and bacteria 'talk' to thwart disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

When it comes to plants' innate immunity, like many of the dances of life, it takes two to tango. A receptor molecule in the plant pairs up with a specific molecule on the invading bacteria and, presto, the immune system ...


Common plants can eliminate indoor air pollutants

Common plants can eliminate indoor air pollutants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Air quality in homes, offices, and other indoor spaces is becoming a major health concern, particularly in developed countries where people often spend more than 90% of their time indoors. Surprisingly, indoor ...



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