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Western Farmers Are Strapped for Water. These Technologies May Help.
Amid a historic drought and a rising population, new devices and approaches can help ease the strain on water resources for agriculture.
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'We talk to plants, they tell us if they are happy'
Agri-tech company Gardin uses sensors and artificial intelligence to see how well crops are growing.
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Have a Drink: Ethanol Helps Crop Plants Survive Drought and Heat
However, as counterintuitive as it sounds, alcohol has the opposite effect on plants. A recent study published in Plant & Cell Physiology shows that pre-treating soil with ethanol significantly enhances crop plants’ drought tolerance — without genetic modification. The stakes are high for climate resilience in food systems.
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Ferns Are Super Weird – And Their Genomes Are Even More Chaotic Than We Thought
There's something really peculiar about ferns.
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One-third of the food we eat is at risk because the climate crisis is endangering butterflies and bees | CNN
Bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch butterfly is perilously close to extinction.
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'It blew us away': Marine scientists amazed to find world's biggest plant growing on our doorstep
Genetic tests have revealed that a seagrass meadow in WA's Shark Bay is actually a giant clone of itself, and is estimated to be at least 4,500 years old.
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Author Interview – Karen Stephenson – Foraging Cookbook
On The Table Read, Karen Stephenson talks to JJ Barnes about what inspired her to write her new Foraging Cookbook and the creative process behind her recipes.
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Meet Botany’s Badass, Shit-Talking Star
Joey Santore’s YouTube channel, Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t, crosses citizen science with vigilante environmentalism
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Meet the Ecologist Who Wants You to Unleash the Wild on Your Backyard
Fed up with invasive species and sterile landscapes, Douglas Tallamy urges Americans to go native and go natural
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The Oldest Tree in the World | Trees Atlanta
The Oldest Tree in the World by Summer Price We all know trees can live really long lives. It’s no surprise that they typically live longer than humans and everything else on the planet. Trees can live anywhere from less than 100 years to more than a few thousand years depending on the species...
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Why do plants grow straight?
Have you ever been at a sporting event or concert and had to wiggle and reposition to get in just the right spot to see the action? Maybe you needed to shift left or right to see between two people. Perhaps you even had to squat on your seat to see over the person in front of you.
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Crops grow better in Mars soil when given good bacteria, study finds
Uber Eats deliveries to Mars are going to be expensive, so the first colonists of the Red Planet will need to figure out how to grow their own food locally. A new study has shown that dosing plants with symbiotic bacteria can drastically improve their growth in barren Mars-like soil.
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The World's Oldest Known Forest Was Not Like We Imagined, New Study Shows
The fossilized web of a 385-million-year-old root network has scientists reimagining what the world's first forests might once have looked like.
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Grass is good. Lawns are terrible.
Sometime in our recent past, we became obsessed with planting trees. First, the goal was 1 billion new trees worldwide. Now it’s 1 trillion by the year 2030. Trees offer all kinds of benefits, from absorbing climate-warming emissions to providing refuge for animals, and we’re losing them at a blistering pace. But in our push to restock the world’s forests, we’ve largely ignored — and in some cases harmed — another important ecosystem that offers a similar set of benefits: grasslands.
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Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant
Using genetic engineering and synthetic biology, we can introduce new biochemical pathways into plant cells, turning them into single-use bioreactors.
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Indian scientists discover 'mermaid' plant species
Indian scientists have discovered a new plant species in India's Andamans archipelago. Biologists found a marine green algae during a trip to the island in 2019. Identification is laborious, and it took the scientists nearly two years to confirm that the species had been discovered for the first time. Scientists say this the first discovery of a species of algae in the islands in nearly four decades.
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480 million-year-old fossil spores from Western Australia record how ancient plants spread to land
When plants started growing on land, they changed the world. Ancient fossil spores hint at how and when they did it.
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Seemingly harmless plant is a carnivore with flowers that eat insects
A plant that grows in bogs along the west coast of North America has been spotted using its flowers to eat insects – until now, researchers had no idea it was carnivorous
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Scientists have just discovered that plants can tell the time
Did you know that plants, like humans, have an ‘internal clock’?
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Wattle is an Aussie icon. So why did scientists end up in a fight over its scientific name?
The first wattles of the season are about to burst into fluffy pom-poms of resplendent gold and pale cream. But in the early 2000s, these plants were in the centre of one of the world's biggest botanical controversies.
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