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Plants constantly interact with a wide array of microorganisms in their environment, ranging from beneficial symbionts to ...

Resistance to disease should mean a longer life, but researchers have found that a mutant protein that helps a plant fight ...

A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...

plant anatomy and/or plant physiology with thesis research in one of those areas. Soil Science involves course work and thesis research in soil chemistry, soil fertility and management, soil physics, ...

Institute for Sustainable Food Research Fellow, Dr Jess Dunn, has been awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) fellowship to explore plant reproductive physiology in ...

Fascinated by plants? Enjoy research? Want to make a difference in agriculture, health, biotechnology, the environment or industry? Plant biology might be the major for you. Plants are the primary ...

ABSTRACT: A field experiment was carried out to determine the effect of variety and plant spacing on yield and growth of groundnuts. The field experiment was laid in a 3 × 3 factorial experiment in a ...

The recent development made by the team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Germany overcomes these limitations. Commercial crop plants need to be genetically ...

Regulation of photosynthesis under changing light conditions The researchers around Ute Armbruster from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm and David Kramer from the ...