News tagged with plant tissue
Popping the Cork on Biofuel Agriculture
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a novel enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin -- the woody, waxy, cell-wall substance ...
Scientists map potato genome, hope to improve crop yield
Sep 24, 2009 |
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It's been cultivated for at least 7,000 years and spread from South America to grow on every continent except Antarctica. Now the humble potato has had its genome sequenced.
Measuring nitrate concentrations in leafy green vegetables
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, Asian greens, and spinach can accumulate high concentrations of nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N), which are potentially harmful if consumed by humans. To measure NO3-N concentration in plant ...
Biologists Unlock Secrets of Plants' Growing Tips
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, simultaneously silence nine genes in a ...
Team Visits Chile on Quest for Rare Fuel-Producing Microorganism
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.
