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HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
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President's Letter Announces Plant Science Funding "Plant scientists have tremendous potential to help us understand -- and possibly find solutions to -- some of the most pressing concerns that face society."   |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Amber Dance |
Peering Back in Time Joseph P. Noel wants to use paleontology to learn how plants endured history's harsh climates and how to ready crops to face severe conditions in the future. |
Chemistry World
January 18, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Plants reprogrammed to produce potential drugs Plants could one day function as factories for producing anti-cancer drugs, say US scientists. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Switching Plants' Reproductive Methods The shipments of seeds that farms rely on at the beginning of each growing season could soon be a relic of the past. Scientists have discovered how to coax plants to clone themselves by altering their reproductive methods. |
Chemistry World
April 19, 2007
John Bonner |
Storm in a Buttercup Botanists have spent 70 years puzzling over the identity of the chemical agent responsible for initiating the flowering process in plants. That mystery has now been solved by two separate research groups in Germany and Japan. |
| National Gardening |
Choosing Perennial Plants When choosing perennial plants you'll need to consider their hardiness rating, your planting location, and when they flower so you'll have season-long color. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Vicki Chandler: Plants Contribute Basic Biological Lessons to Science" Vicki Chandler's research on how plants regulate their genes may ultimately inform studies of human diseases. She's leading the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's partnership with HHMI to support more of this kind of fundamental plant science. |
Chemistry World
September 8, 2015
Simon Hadlington |
Mutant plant can mop up explosives UK researchers have identified a mutant plant that is able to thrive on soil contaminated with high concentrations of the explosive TNT. |
Scientific American
June 2005
JR Minkel |
RNA to the Rescue The spectacular discovery that a species of plant can summon up genes its parents have lost highlights biologists' increasing recognition of RNA as a more versatile and important molecule in its own right. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
John Roach |
Tiny Breathing Plant Mouths Keiko Torii was drawn from an interest in cancer research to a career in plant biology, but keeps her eyes open for relevance in both areas. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2013
Anthony King |
Saving carbon to increase biofuel brewing efficiency Scientists in the US have designed a synthetic pathway for glycolysis that cuts carbon loss and could significantly boost production of biofuels and other chemicals in bio-refineries. |
Wired
October 2001 |
Verge To study how microgravity affects plant development, scientists are germinating about two dozen thale cress plants 250 miles above earth... |
Popular Mechanics
June 13, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
5 Reasons Why Researchers Say The Happening Is Junk Science In these days of melting ice caps and wild weather, M. Night Shyamalan's new movie poses an interesting question: What happens if the environment, spurred by centuries of pollution and disregard, turns against us? |
Information Today
January 15, 2015 |
Nature Publishing Group Publishes Plant Sciences OA Journal Nature Publishing Group's Nature Plants is the first journal in the field to feature research across the plant sciences. |
Science News
September 17, 2005
Janet Raloff |
Using Light to Sense Plants' Health and Diversity A new experimental laser device promises speedy and more-detailed maps of crop-nutrition needs by taking readings from plants themselves as a tractor or other vehicle moves through a field. |
Chemistry World
September 23, 2014 |
Chemistry in bloom There's chemistry among the specimens at many botanical gardens. Sarah Houlton talks to the scientists involved |
| National Gardening |
Buying Strawberry Plants What to look for and know when buying strawberry plants. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Second Harvest July is the perfect month to start thinking about the fall garden. Many of the vegetables you've enjoyed from the garden this spring and early summer can be grown and harvested this fall as well. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
Houseplants for People Who Can't Grow Houseplants No matter the color of your thumb, this guide will help you select and care for plants that will thrive. |
Chemistry World
February 5, 2014
Andy Extance |
Plants bear palladium catalyst fruit UK researchers have redefined the term 'chemical plant' by showing thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings can reduce palladium salts and help produce catalytic nanoparticles. |
Chemistry World
August 13, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Nature Captured in a Test-Tube Two groups of researchers have demonstrated how a complex chain of reactions catalyzed by multiple enzymes can be reconstructed in the test tube to synthesize naturally occurring products that have potential therapeutic properties. |
| National Gardening |
Care and Harvest of Strawberries You won't be idle until your first harvest. You must not let the new plants set berries in their first year. They will try to fruit, but you must pick off the blossoms as they appear. |
This Old House
March 27, 2001
Lynn Ocone |
Growing Perfect Tomatoes Treat yourself to one of the true pleasures of summer: your own homegrown tomatoes fresh from the vine... |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Tomatoes' cry for help turned into chemical weapon to battle insects Tomato plants not only take heed of their neighbours chemical 'warnings' but actually convert the signals into substances to defend themselves against imminent insect attack, researchers in Japan have discovered. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2005
Patricia Panchak |
Editor's Page -- Continental Crusaders Here's proof that you can succeed at manufacturing in North America -- and we'll even tell you how. |
Chemistry World
August 9, 2011
Andrew Turley |
DuPont halts sale of wayward herbicide Chemical major DuPont has stopped selling its herbicide Imprelis less than a year after receiving US approval following complaints it has damaged and killed trees. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2004
George Taninecz |
Long-Term Commitments Practices and performances validate world-class manufacturing facilities. |
National Defense
June 2011
Eric Beidel |
By Changing Color, Plants Can Signal Presence of Explosives Researchers at Colorado State University are using actual plants -- green, leafy organisms -- to detect explosives and environmental pollutants. |
