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Researchers discover novel mechanism protecting plants against freezing (In Brief & In Depth)September 2010"This brings together two classic problems in plant biology," said Christoph Benning, MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. "One is that plants protect themselves against freezing an ... 
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Plant scientists move closer to making any crop drought-tolerant. (In Brief & In Depth)September 2010A collaborative team of scientists has made a significant advance on the discovery last year by the University of California, Riverside's Sean Cutler of pyrabactin, a synthetic chemical that mimic ...
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Black rice rivals pricey blueberries as source of healthful antioxidants (In Brief & In Depth)August 2010Black rice, one variety of rice which got the moniker "Forbidden Rice" in ancient China because nobles commandeered every grain for themselves and forbade the common people from eating it, wa ...
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Core knowledge of tree fruit expands with apple genome sequencing (In Brief & In Depth)August 2010"The United States is the world's second largest producer of apples, with annual production valued at more than $1 billion and the completion of the sequence of the apple genome gives researchers a ...
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Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth. (In Brief & In Depth)August 2010Plant productivity is a measure of the rate of the photosynthesis process that green plants use to convert solar energy, carbon dioxide and water to sugar, oxygen and eventually plant tissue ...
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Researchers discover how the storehouses of plant cells are formed. (In Brief & In Depth)August 2010Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have now discovered a new protein essential to the formation of vacuoles. In the process they uncovered new clues that may help demystify th ...
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Study predicts massive impact of drought tolerant maize in Africa (In Brief & In Depth)August 2010As climate change intensifies drought conditions in Africa and sparks fears of a new cycle of crippling food shortages, a study released today finds widespread adoption of recently develope ...
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Apathetic aphids with attitude become easier prey for ladybugs (In Brief & In Depth)August 2010The study, "Alarm pheromone habituation in Myzus persicae has fitness consequences and causes extensive gene expression changes," was authored by Georg Jander, associate scientist at the Boyc ...
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As crops wither in Russia's severe drought, vital plant field bank faces demolition (In Brief & In Depth)August 2010As the fate of Europe's largest collection of fruit and berries hangs in the balance of a Russian court decision, the Global Crop Diversity Trust issued an urgent appeal for the Russian governmen ...
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