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The benefits of being bitter: How the cranberry's evolution made it a Thanksgiving staple

In the early days of the American Republic, one tiny, red fruit would become a fixture of the fall harvest and a mainstay of holiday meals. The cranberry -- one of only a few commercial fruits native to North ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Genes from sweet pepper to fortify African banana against devastating wilt disease

In a major breakthrough, crop scientists announced today the successful transfer of green pepper genes to bananas, conferring on the popular fruit the means to resist one of the most devastating diseases of bananas in the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Don't Compare Bananas to Pears

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yellow leaves on banana plants give off a blue glow when viewed under UV light. This luminescence comes from decomposition products of chlorophyll, the substance that makes leaves green.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Top 15 chemical additives in your food

We don't just want our food to taste good these days: It also has to look good. As a result, food producers use any of 14,000 laboratory-made additives to make our food appear fresher, more attractive or last longer on the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (25) | comments 7

GSU professor develops new method to help keep fruit, vegetables and flowers fresh

Did you know that millions of tons of fruits and vegetables in the United States end up in the trash can before being eaten, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture? A Georgia State University professor has developed ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fruit fly pest identified in wine grapes

A newly recognized pest in Oregon continues to concern fruit growers and researchers with the recent discovery of a Spotted Wing Drosophila fly in a sample of Willamette Valley wine grapes.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blue bananas: Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ripe bananas are of course yellow. However, under black light, the yellow bananas are bright blue, as discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Columbia University ...

Chemistry /

created Oct 17, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (37) | comments 8

Scientists trace extensive networks regulating alternative RNA splicing

[B]RNA targets of tissue-specific splicing factors Fox-1 and Fox-2 are successfully predicted[/B] Two professors at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have succeeded in tracing intricate biochemical networks involving a c ...

Biology /

created Sep 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vegetable Scales With A Mind Of Their Own

What was the number you were supposed to enter for the chili-pepper on the self-service scales? Was it 67 or 76? And the number for the bananas? The latest self-service scales automatically recognize what ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Argonne breakthrough may revolutionize ethylene production

A new environmentally friendly technology created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory may revolutionize the production of the world's most commonly produced organic compound, ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 05, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 0


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