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acipenser transmontanus

acipenser transmontanus

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12-22-2016

Acipenser transmontanus

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During the worst fire year on record in the United States, scientists are working to understand how wildfires affect interactions between plants and animals.

11-25-2020 Plants

Plant and pollinator connections become stronger after wildfires

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Scientists at the University of Exeter have discovered that Fritillaria delavayi plants have evolved to match their surroundings in places where they are most frequently harvested.

11-20-2020 Plants

Chinese Fritillaria plants have found a way to hide from humans

Ancient plants that grow on the slopes of China's Hengduan...

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11-13-2020 Plants

Plant compounds are key to solving the problem of antibiotic resistance

Experts at Emory University have conducted the first comprehensive review...

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11-06-2020 Plants

Increasing plant biodiversity reduces the need for pesticides

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The analysis of forests in the Pacific Northwest has revealed that despite making up only three percent of the total number of trees across the study sites, large-diameter trees store 42 percent of the total above-ground carbon in these ecosystems.

11-05-2020 Plants

Study highlights the value of old, large trees

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Parasitic plants rely on ethylene to successfully launch an attack, according to a new study from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

11-04-2020 Plants

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10-13-2020 Plants

Two competing proteins determine plant shapes

While it is known that plants have the incredible ability...

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Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) are shedding new light on the remarkable ability of plant stem cells, or meristems, to block out viruses

10-11-2020 Plants

Study reveals how the tips of plants block viruses

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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA have turned their attention to campus food, which represent some of the largest indirect sources of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the college.

10-10-2020 Lifestyle

Healthier campus food could reduce carbon emissions

For the last seven years, the University of California system...

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In an effort to identify the tropical plants that existed in closed-canopy rainforests, and also to understand where on Earth these ecosystems existed millions of years ago, scientists analyze the vegetation that is contained in the fossil teeth of extinct animals

10-05-2020 Plants

Plants from ancient rainforests can be identified in fossil teeth

Plants from ancient rainforests can be identified in fossil teeth....

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According to a new study from American University, spinach can be converted into carbon nanosheets to serve as a catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells.

10-05-2020 Plants

Spinach can be used to power fuel cells

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