We demonstrate that native grass species from coastal and geothermal habitats require symbiotic ... In addition, the coastal plant endophyte colonized rice (a model monocot) and conferred salt ...

ALORA’s first plant - a rice variety billed as “the most salt-tolerant 'terrestrial' plant on the planet” - can grow in half the salinity of oceanic saltwater (up to 16g salt per liter ...

Increased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plants' ability to absorb nutrients Date: June 12, 2015 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the ...

Yet to this day, much of the plants’ biology and habitat remain unknown — which is why Rice is here, trying to find established populations. Near the bottom of the crevice, the ground becomes ...

an ecologist at Rice University, to Science’s Erik Stokstad. “At the same time that we’re ‘forcing’ plants to move these great distances, we’ve also substantially slowed their ...