A common soil dwelling bacterium appears to possess a sense of touch, researchers have shown. The microbe's ability to respond to subtle changes in its environment, as revealed in the journal PLOS ONE, could signal potential useful scientific, engineering and…
Julie Beale, left, and Sara Long, right, earned national accreditation for the UK Plant Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory in its 50th year. The lab serves farmers, foresters, landscapers and other plant experts and enthusiasts across Kentucky. UK Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab…
Researchers have decoded the chromosome-level genome of Houttuynia cordata, an important East Asian medicinal plant known for its strong flavor and wide pharmacological use. This species was found to be decaploid, containing ten sets of chromosomes, and has undergone multiple…
A recent study has unlocked the genetic secrets of Houttuynia cordata, an Asian herb renowned for its distinctive aroma and medicinal properties. This pioneering research unveils the plant’s genetic makeup, shedding light on its evolutionary history and the complex processes…
What can we learn from fossil plants and pollen? Plenty, it turns out, including how the Earth “greened” and how plants survived past periods of climate change. Those topics and more will be discussed at a series of public talks…
To demonstrate the framework, the team applied the pipeline to 709 chloroplast genomes from the plant order Poales. The analysis indicated that genomic diversity in this group is driven primarily by species-specific variation, a finding the authors report in the abstract…
Thorgood, Chris J., Leon, Christine J., Di Lei, Rajeed Aldughayman, Huang, Lin-Tang & Hawkins, juliie A. 2021 (June) Desert hyacinths: An obscure solution to a global... Thorgood, Christopher. 2022. Chasing Plants Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains Chicago: University of Chicago Press Thorgood,…
Researchers identified verbascoside, echinacoside, isoacteoside, and pinoresinol as chemical markers distinguishing Cistanches Herba grown on saline-alkali land from desert-grown samples. News Source: Ophelia Keating. (October 28, 2026). Four Chemical Markers Reveal How Desert Medicinal Plant Adapts to Saline-Alkali Soil. Scienmag.
Decoupling headspace gas, buffer chemistry and pH reveals that anaerobic gut fungi require bicarbonate beyond its buffering function, with low strain-specific thresholds restoring hydrogen production under nitrogen. The model strain Neocallimastix cameroonii showed limited metabolic activity in the first transfer…
A new review argues that endophytic microbes living inside medicinal plants produce compounds that can kill multidrug-resistant pathogens, though toxicity testing and clinical validation remain major hurdles.
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