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ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210304112437.htm
Findings explain how plants use RNA to defend against fungal invaders
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- University of California - Riverside
- Summary:
- New research reveals an essential step in scientists' …
Jan Suszkiw Distant cousins of cultivated potato may hold the key to unlocking new sources of resistance to the tuber crop's most …
Read more...The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/03/britain-moths-decline-by-third-50-years-study
Drivers of decline likely to be habitat loss, intensive farming, climate change and light pollution
Moths in Britain have declined in …
KBC https://www.kbc.co.ke/icipe-researchers-make-breakthrough-in-fall-armyworm-control/ BY:Margaret Kalekye Fall Armyworm (FAW) or Spodoptera frugiperda , is an invasive pest that is wreaking havoc in Kenya and many other parts of the world, causing …
Read more...EurekAlert https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/usu-run022321.php
In their study published on Dec. 4 in Nature: Scientific Reports, researchers at Utah State University analyzed the effects of two abiotic stressors on Pseudomonas …
The Harvard Gazette https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/understanding-how-evolution-shaped-the-insect-visual-system/
Novel way to isolate light-sensitive proteins may lead to evolutionary insights
Marjorie Liénard had a classic eureka moment …
Read more...The Crescent News https://www.crescent-news.com/news/local_farm/relationship-between-nitrogen-and-crop-disease/article_d6c9c6f5-98d0-556c-8ef7-75681fc5288b.html
By Hoorman Soil Health Services Nitrogen (N) is the fourth most abundant plant nutrient …
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2021-02-global-microbial-life-soilsand-ecological.html
by German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Soil microorganisms play a critical role in the survival of life-sustaining …
Read more...BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56095222
New Zealand has some of the highest numbers of wasps in the world, and is now taking action to tackle them by introducing two insects from Europe.
The hover fly and wasp-nest beetle were given the …
Brisbane beekeeper creates editable map to track African tulip trees killing native stingless bees
ABC Radio Brisbane https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-17/beekeper-creates-tree-map-to-save-native-bees/13156240
A Brisbane beekeeper has created a map for the public to locate African tulip trees in a bid to weed out the plant …
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