8+ hour, 26+ min 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....

8+ hour, 48+ 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…...

9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (651+ words) Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) is one of the most important forage grasses in temperate agriculture, prized for its rapid growth, high digestibility and adaptability to intensive grazing and cutting systems. Yet behind its agronomic value lies a stubborn problem…...

23+ hour, 44+ min 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, 1+ 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, 11+ hour ago   (267+ words) New research from the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo suggests ichthyosaurs’ rib cages may have done a job modern whale ribs don’t: acting as ballast to help them dive....

2+ day, 18+ 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…...

3+ day, 8+ 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, 11+ 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, 12+ hour ago   (753+ words) During a recent monthlong expedition, a team of scientists conducted one of the most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken in the deep waters of Trinidad and Tobago, a dual-island nation located in the southern Caribbean Sea. “This is the first time…...