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From birth, with a picture-perfect coat and a heart full of individuality: Pebbles is more than just an exceptionally beautiful cat. The combination of her fur colors and features is as genetically ...
For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...
University of California Riverside research reveals plants use sugar and thermal signals to detect daytime heat.
For years, we’ve admired plants for their ability to cleanse the air and help fight air pollution. However, our green ally ...
Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...
Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have discovered a previously unknown protein that is central to plant reproduction.
Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through ...
The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.
A research team has discovered a previously unknown type of peptide that guides pollen tubes to ovules in Arabidopsis ...
Natural variation in plants refers to the genetic diversity of a single plant species in the wild. Natural variation is a valuable source of beneficial traits for plant breeding. Grain number per ...
Plants have long been central to bioactive compound discovery, with many secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, and phenolics ...