News tagged with root
Hormone clue to root growth
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, which will be necessary to ...
Scientists unveil chocolate-fueled race car
May 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists unveiled on Tuesday what they hope will be one of the world's fastest biofuel vehicles, powered by waste from chocolate factories and made partly from plant fibers.
Tree survival skills: Stresses during handling and transport affect tree health
May 04, 2009 |
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Consider the cumulative stresses that transplanted trees must endure from the time they are harvested until they become established in a landscape. Multiple stress factors can mean the difference between survival and death ...
Simple bedside test improves diagnosis of chronic back pain, could guide treatment
Apr 07, 2009 |
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A simple and inexpensive method of assessing pain, developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers, is better than currently used techniques for distinguishing neuropathic pain - pain caused ...
Historical increase in corn yield -- it's in the roots
Mar 16, 2009 |
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One of the most significant developments in agricultural growth in modern times has been the continuous and substantial increase in corn yield over the past 80 years in the U.S. Corn Belt.
German researchers testing veggie Viagra: reports
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Mar 16, 2009 |
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German researchers are testing an impotency treatment for men made using only natural ingredients that in some cases works better than Viagra, newspapers reported Monday.
Texas-sized tract of single-celled clones
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A Rice University study of microbes from a Houston-area cow pasture has confirmed once again that everything is bigger in Texas, even the single-celled stuff. The tests revealed the first-ever report of a ...
Long-term study of orchard ground cover management systems
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Orchard floor and groundcover management is important to fruit growers, affecting the efficiency of orchard operations, fruit tree performance, and soil quality.
Researcher proposes statistical method to enhance airport secondary security screenings
Feb 02, 2009 |
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A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin has found that secondary security screening at airports is mathematically flawed, and has identified a way to select people for screenings more efficiently and fairly.
Root system architecture arises from coupling cell shape to auxin transport
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Plants come in all shapes and sizes, from grand Redwood trees to the common Snowdrop. Although we cannot see them, under the ground plants rely on a complex network of roots. What determines the pattern of root growth has ...
More food at lower cost: Important step forward towards increasing crop yields
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Dec 14, 2008 |
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In the face of climate change, being able to increase crop yields by enabling plants to take up nutrients and water more efficiently becomes increasingly important, as fertiliser and water supplies incur significant ...
Researchers Getting to the 'Root' of Christmas Tree Problems
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Nov 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As Christmas tree farmers prepare for their busiest season, researchers at North Carolina State University are studying how to combat a disease that has killed thousands of North Carolina Christmas trees ...
Bacteria manage perfume oil production from grass
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Oct 31, 2008 |
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Scientists in Italy have found bacteria in the root of a tropical grass whose oils have been used in the cosmetic and perfumery industries. These bacteria seem to promote the production of essential oils, but also they change ...
Origin of root offshoots revealed
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Oct 23, 2008 |
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VIB researchers at Ghent University (Belgium) have discovered the substance that governs the formation of root offshoots in plants, and how it works. Root offshoots are vitally important for plants – and for farmers. Plants ...
Biochemists devise method for bypassing aluminum toxicity effects in plants
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land.
