1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (832+ words) While on a university field trip in 2022, the boat Joseph Nguthiru was traversing Kenya's Lake Naivasha in, suddenly came to a halt. It became tangled up in water hyacinth, an invasive plant that covers much of the water. Here, he…...

13+ hour, 38+ min ago   (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (793+ words) Stick and leaf insects are among the most accomplished masters of disguise in the animal kingdom, but their most remarkable imitation may be the one nobody watches happen. The eggs of many phasmid species look uncannily like plant seeds, complete…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (805+ words) Lodging, the structural failure of crop stems that bend or collapse under their own weight or under the pressure of wind and rain, remains one of the most persistent threats to agricultural productivity worldwide....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (748+ words) In the world of biological pest control, few organisms are as commercially important as the entomopathogenic fungi of the genus Beauveria....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (185+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research However, assessing the death of a particular plankton population out of a community consisting of hundreds of coexisting species poses a complex challenge. A team of researchers at Kyoto University addressed this by focusing…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (550+ words) Between Route 322 and Science Hall, within a sloping meadow blooming with black-eyed Susans, goldenrod and purple horsemint, passersby might spot a biology professor or two bearing an electric string trimmer and a pair of hand pruners. They’re targeting five non-native…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (686+ words) Observations About Rye, New York Going Native is our gardening series highlighting the contribution of native plants to building resilient landscapes. MyRye.com will introduce you to native plant experts that will tell you ways to get started with a…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (347+ words) eurekalert.org A chromosome-level genome of Chinese spiraea reveals how the rose family conserved and remodeled a major route for producing salicylic acid, a hormone central to plant immunity and environmental stress responses. By combining genome assembly, comparative genomics, transcriptome…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (13+ words) theplantbasemag.com...