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When film director James Cameron needed help to create plant life for the fictional planet in his new film "Avatar," he looked to the University of California, Riverside for help.

As a myco-heterotroph, M. odorata obtains carbon resources from associated mycorrhizal fungi and has a highly reduced vegetative morphology consisting of an underground root mass that produces one to many diminutive... It is well known that some animal species use camouflage to hide from predators.

Researchers unfold a key step in the process that tells plants to flower, findings that could one day benefit agriculture.

Proteolytic enzymes play central role in the biochemical mechanism of germination and intricately involved in many aspects of plant physiology and development.

The Purdue scientists, led by Nicholas Carpita, a professor of plant cell biology, published their findings on the 750 cell wall genes in the journal Plant Physiology on Thursday .

Date : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:29:18 +0400 PROMINENT BOTANIST-EVOLUTIONIST, ACADEMICIAN ARMEN TAKHTAJIAN DIES NOYAN TAPAN NOVEMBER 19, 2009 SAINT PETERSBURG SAINT PETERSBURG, NOVEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN.

The Ozone Component of Global Change: Potential Effects on Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Yield, Product Quality and Interactions with Invasive Species Export Journal of Integrative Plant Biology , Vol.

The new map, a special type of gene map known as a haplotype map, charts genetic diversity and recombination across the genome of 27 inbred lines of maize.

Perspectives Plant Science: Solving the Maze Catherine Feuillet1 and Kellye Eversole2 Almost 400 years after Native Americans introduced maize to the pilgrims and joined in celebrating what would become an annual day of giving thanks for the bounty of the harvest, insights from the maize genome sequence, reported on page 1112 of this issue by ...

When it comes to corn, 1 + 1 = more than 2: The offspring of two inbred strains tend to be superior to both of their parents.

After decades of seeing plants as passive recipients of fate, scientists have found them capable of behaviors once thought unique to animals.

A pair of the state's foremost experts in manzanita plants have weighed in that the bush recently uncovered during the Doyle Drive project is a living specimen of the Franciscan Manzanita -- a discovery akin to stumbling across a Dodo or Passenger Pigeon.

Perched on a rocky hillside, scientist Jim Andre points excitedly to a newly discovered plant species in the heart of the Mojave Desert -- what he calls the great frontier for botany -- where he estimates as many as 175 uncharted varieties will be found in the next century.

Jewelweeds make nice with their leaves when their roots share roots. In lab experiments, seedlings of Impatiens wildflowers react mildly when planted in pots with other offspring from the same mother plant, says ecologist Guillermo P. Murphy of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

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Date : Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:39:02 +0400 TREES ARE BEING CUT IN YEERVAN: WHO BENEFITS? PanARMENIAN.Net 11.11.2009 17:35 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Again trees are being cut down in Yerevan, Ecolur reports, referring to statements made by residents of different regions of the Armenian capital.

Improvement in Lupinus luteus protoplast culture a ' stimulatory effect of agarose embedding and chemical nursing on protoplast divisions Alina Wiszniewska A , B and Anna Pindel A A Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Horticulture, University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland.

We recognize that climate change is likely to be very rapid and that seeds only disperse a few hundred yards, half a mile at most, naturally, said Kayri Havens, the botanic garden's director of plant science and conservation.

People can help the species to survive by planting it in their gardens, a DoC botanist says.

Monday, 9 November 2009, 3:56 pm Press Release: Govett Brewster Gallery Science, nature and art in Govett-Brewster's summer Click for big version Image: Len Lye The Birth of the Robot 1936 Courtesy the Len Lye Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive Nature, science and uncertainty are explored in the summer season exhibitions at the ...