How did Earth get its water? Inside the extreme machine seeking answers
Geoscientists have been debating whether Earth (right) trapped water in its interior during its formation some 4.5 billion…
Mouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplant
A chloroplast (green) dotted with the membranous stacks called thylakoid grana (black blocks). Scientists have harnessed grana to…
Amazon rainforests are rejuvenating their canopies by producing more photosynthetically efficient young leaves under climate change
Wu, J. et al. Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests. Science 351, 972–976…
Study of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants in Metema and Quara districts, northwestern Ethiopia
Medicinal plant species used in ethnoveterinary practices In the study districts, a considerable number of ethnoveterinary medicinal plant…
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
When Robert Hooke gazed through his microscope at a slice of cork and coined the term ‘cell’ in…
Old crops in new places
All over the world, farmers are finding new ways to adapt to climate change. But these innovations risk…
Civet Robusta and natural Robusta coffee are different on key fatty acid methyl esters and total fat
The civet’s diet in coffee-forest habitats includes over 55 food items, with coffee berries constituting most of their…
Revealing the genetic diversity and population structure in lentil (Lens culinaris) germplasm using inter-primer binding site (iPBS)-retrotransposon markers | BMC Plant Biology
Zohary D, Hopf M. Domestication of plants in the old world: the origin and spread of cultivated plants…
Learning the syntax of plant assemblages
A visualization of the methodology used in this paper is shown in Fig. 1, a more complete overview…
Cytometric and genetic analysis of Slovenian local apple genotypes | BMC Plant Biology
SSR polymorphism and genetic diversity In this study, a total number of 233 apple genotypes were genotyped using…
A multi-parent population approach to reveal the genetic basis of plant height in maize | BMC Plant Biology
Phenotypic analysis of plant height (PH) in the multi-parent population Phenotypic evaluation of plant height among the parental…
Analysis of lycopene variation and genetic characteristics in wheat grain | BMC Plant Biology
Lycopene extraction and recovery The lycopene standard was measured via HPLC at 450 nm with a retention time…