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Aryn Young, a research assistant at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and one of Burgess' former TCU students, is recording his running monologue on how the native grassland he helped create on BRIT's grounds represents the very heart of Fort Worth.

Their advocates say they are a store of knowledge, which could help tackle many global problems and offer a chance to live in a timeframe not bound by instant messaging, but across the world many botanical gardens are having to face challenges, often related to funding.

Robert Scotland is the last remaining taxonomic botanist to be found in any UK university.

Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and City University of New York have invented a proprietary new formulation called VisikolTM that effectively clears organisms to be viewed under microscopes.

Pectin is a main component of the plant cell wall and is the most complex family of polysaccharides in nature.

The new technology platform can harness the plant's own genes to improve characteristics of sunflower, develop genetic traits, which will improve its role as an important oilseed crop.

Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology: Official Journal of the Societa Botanica Italiana , Vol.

For the 75th Anniversary Issue of Plant Physiology, I contributed an article in which I highlighted recent advances in the identification of genes with roles in cold acclimation: the process whereby certain plants increase in freezing tolerance in response to low nonfreezing temperatures.

Wild edible plants will be the focus of a program at Lake Maria State Park beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at the park's nature center.

After a cold winter, spring has finally arrived, and it is time to plant the garden.

Necrotizing Entercolitis, an infection and inflammation that causes destruction of the intestine,affects about 10,000 babies a year in the country, and mortality rates are roughly 40 percent.

Three biotechnology entrepreneurs have come up with a bright idea that has attracted a wealth of interest and backing on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, which allows people to donate money directly to projects they want to help finance.

A U of I professor is joining the ranks of Isaac Newton and other great scientists.

External heat-pulse method allows comparative sapflow measurements in diverse functional types in a Mediterranean-type shrubland in South Africa Robert P. Skelton A C , Adam G. West A , Todd E. Dawson B and Jenny M. Leonard A A University of Cape Town - Botany, HW Pearson Building Upper Campus, Cape Town, Western Cape 7700, South Africa.

As part of its mission to enable farmers to grow more soybeans , Syngenta continues to push the envelope in stress management.

Stephen Long, who has pioneered research into the photosynthetic productivity of crops, is the UI Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology and faculty fellow at the UI's Institute for Genomic Biology.

Current Opinion in Plant Biology , Vol. 11, No. 2. , pp. 228-231, doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2007.11.002 90% of the world's rice is grown and consumed in Asia, with each hectare of rice-producing land providing food for 27 people.

The world is changing. As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, global temperatures are on the rise.

Christopher Beavon thinks it'd be pretty tops to score the best job in the world, or at least one of them.

This is Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology, Institute for Genomic Biology faculty member, and Fellow of the Royal Society.