News tagged with tomato plants
I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.
Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the middle of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra cotta pots, growing under the light of an ...
Red alert! How disease disables tomato plant's 'intruder alarm'
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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How a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defences and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in new research out today (4 December) in Current Biology.
A big bunch of tomatoes?
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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Why do poppies and sunflowers grow as a single flower per stalk while each stem of a tomato plant has several branches, each carrying flowers? In a new study, published in this week's issue of the open access journal PLoS Bi ...
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Can Nanotubes Help Your Garden Grow?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of nanotubes, we often think of solar panels and physical science. However, it appears that nanotubes can also provide valuable help to plants as a fertilizer. Just add carbon ...
New discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds
May 26, 2009 |
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Michigan State University plant scientists have identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that the plants were making monoterpenes, compounds that help give tomato ...
Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Can tomatoes carry the cure for Alzheimer's?
Jul 08, 2008 |
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The humble tomato could be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, according to HyunSoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Korea and colleagues from ...
Changing smell of plants announces fungus attack
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomato plants under attack from the Botrytis fungus give off an aromatic substance that can be measured in greenhouses. This is the result of research performed by Roel Jansen with which he ...
Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer
May 29, 2008 |
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New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Associ ...
Graduate student discovers, names bacterium linked to psyllid yellows
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Aug 12, 2008 |
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To make a discovery and get to name it is just about every scientist's dream. For one graduate student at UC Riverside that dream already has come true.
Expert to provide update after 'worst tomato virus' hits California
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Jul 19, 2007 |
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Robert Gilbertson, plant pathology professor at the University of California, Davis, will provide the update on the status of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) after it was found for the first time in California. The ...
Prevent tomato late blight next growing season
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine ...
Tomato stands firm in face of fungus
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May 09, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Amsterdam have discovered how to keep one’s tomatoes from wilting – the answer lies at the molecular level. The story of how the plant beat the pathogen, and what it means for combating other ...
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