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Tomato Gene SlXTH3 Opens the Door for Devastating Bacterial Wilt Pathogen
22+ hour, 4+ min ago (80+ words) Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world, striking tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and hundreds of other crops. Once the bacterium establishes itself in a field, it is notoriously…...
Meadow Rue Genus Shows Drug Promise, but Review Finds Evidence Gaps
1+ day, 22+ min ago (485+ words) A sprawling review of the meadow rue genus, Thalictrum, has catalogued a striking trove of biologically active plant chemicals across Africa and Asia, while simultaneously exposing how little of the evidence stands up to rigorous scientific scrutiny....
Sage-Made Zinc and Iron Nanoparticles Help Basil Survive Drought
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (615+ words) Drought is one of the most punishing stresses a plant can face, and few crops feel that pressure more acutely than basil, a medicinal and aromatic herb whose essential oils, pigments, and delicate foliage depend on a steady water supply....
Common Rice Field Weed Revealed as Hidden Reservoir of Devastating Dwarf
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (89+ words) A weed that rice farmers have long regarded as little more than a nuisance for yield and herbicide budgets has now been caught playing a far more consequential role in the field. Chinese sprangletop (Leptochloa chinensis), a fast-colonizing grass that…...
Himalayan Thyme Reveals Pollen Trade-Off That May Threaten Its Mountaintop
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (722+ words) High on the ridges of the Kashmir Himalaya, a low-growing aromatic shrub is quietly rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how plants reproduce and survive as altitude climbs....
Tropical Shrub’s Leaf Extracts Show Power to Fight Superbugs and Curb Cow
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (55+ words) Scientists in Indonesia have combined cutting-edge analytical chemistry with an urgent global problem in a study of a humble tropical shrub that villagers have relied on for generations. The plant, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, known widely as rose myrtle, is a pink-flowered…...
PlantCCC Reads the Hidden Language of Talking Plant Cells
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (55+ words) Plant cells are famously sociable, but the way they talk to one another has long been one of the hardest conversations in biology to eavesdrop on. Unlike animal tissues, where cells can migrate and freely exchange signals, plant cells are…...
Levitated Electrode System Detects Daily Rhythms in Fruit Without Touching
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (602+ words) In a finding that could reshape how scientists monitor the internal clocks of plants, researchers in Japan have demonstrated that detached fruits give off a measurable rhythm in the electrical charge of the air around them — a rhythm that rises…...
Root anatomy, metabolism and microbes team up to help plants survive
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (599+ words) Plant roots are far more than simple anchors. They are living interfaces, constantly negotiating with an invisible world of bacteria and fungi that surround them in the soil....
Banana Peel Hydrogel Packed With Drought-Defying Bacteria Boosts Iron and
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (81+ words) Scientists in India have engineered a biodegradable hydrogel bead that carries a drought-tolerant bacterial consortium straight into the root zone of cowpea plants, and the results are striking. In pot trials described in the journal Discover Plants, the formulation nearly…...