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Mole-Rat Genes Evolving Faster Than Expected Reveal Secrets of Subterranean
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (568+ words) Beneath the sun-baked soils of eastern and southern Africa, a family of rodents has quietly rewritten the rules of mammalian life. Naked mole-rats resist cancer, tolerate near-anoxic conditions and barely age. Damaraland mole-rats dig elaborate tunnel networks and live in…...
Root anatomy, metabolism and microbes team up to help plants survive
1+ day, 18+ 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....
Mussel Brains Reveal How Nervous Systems Survive Oxygen Starvation and
1+ day, 18+ hour 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…...
Efficient Agrobacterium transformation developed for biofuel crop Brassica
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (55+ words) Scientists in Australia have developed a robust and reproducible genetic transformation system for Brassica carinata, an ancient East African oilseed that is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising non-food feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. The…...
Forty-five years studying plant silicon and phytoliths: a personal
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (787+ words) When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20 October 1980, he had no idea that the encounter would define the next four and a half decades of his scientific life....
Mapping the Dynamic Plant Interactome: New Quantitative In Vivo Approaches
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (78+ words) Every process that keeps a plant alive—from the immune responses that fend off pathogens to the signaling cascades that help roots find water—depends on proteins physically touching one another. These countless molecular handshakes, collectively known as the protein…...
Arg/N-Degron Pathway Evolves Differently in Brassica rapa and Arabidopsis
1+ week, 1+ day ago (854+ words) In a finding that is sending ripples through the plant science community, researchers have created the first mutants defective in the Arg/N-degron protein degradation pathway in a major crop species, and the results defy the expectations built over nearly…...
Engineered genomic attachment sites for site-specific recombinases enable high-efficiency integration in plants and human cells | Nature Biotechnology
1+ week, 5+ day ago (710+ words) Nature Biotechnology (2026) Cite this article The luciferase activity was measured using a Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay System (Promega) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. All assays were performed in white 96-well plates (Sangon Biotech, 400 µl, high adsorption) with a SuperMax 3000AL luminometer (Flash…...
Scientists map plant-fungus symbiosis at single-cell resolution
3+ week, 6+ day ago (704+ words) Ghent, 18 August 2026 — Beneath the soil, tomato roots are not passive anchors but dynamic biological interfaces where plants and fungi negotiate an exchange of resources....
How plants silence jumping genes without harming essential genes
3+ week, 6+ day ago (472+ words) Researchers in Japan have uncovered how plants distinguish dangerous “jumping genes” from essential genes when establishing DNA methylation, a chemical marking system that can silence genetic material without altering the underlying DNA sequence....