Author: zooplantman
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Common Flower Inspires Innovative Cancer Drug Therapy
Researchers are poised to start clinical trials with a new “smart bomb” treatment, derived from the flower, targeted specifically at tumours.
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300 Year Old Plants Predict Our Climate Future
A strong relationship between mountain plum pine growth and snow cover means we may be able to estimate annual snow conditions well before European settlement, which is important because it will tell us whether the current declining snow conditions have precedent.
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Your Future Blood Transfusion Could Start With A Grain Of Rice
The rice-derived protein was shown to be functionally equivalent to the version found in human blood plasma. Not only were the two chemically and physically identical, but they were also similar when tested for medical efficacy and immune reactivity.
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Plant From Another World: 3000 Year Old Yareta
Crawling its way along barren rocks and cliffs where nothing should be growing, Yareta could be mistaken for an alien life form or a primordial green ooze.
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How Ancient Forests Created The World We Know And Created US
Only when tree-like plants with deep roots took hold some 330 million years ago did river banks finally come under control, say researchers When the change occurred, rivers became single, deeper channels that meandered slowly across the floodplain, and only occasionally breaking their banks and carving out new channels.
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Scientists find lager beer’s missing link — on Patagonia trees
How did lager beer come to be? After pondering the question for decades, scientists have found that an elusive species of yeast isolated in the forests of Argentina was key to the invention of the crisp-tasting German beer 600 years ago.
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Farms Help Fragmented Wild Plant Populations
Not all landscapes can be classified as habitat or non-habitat, and some of the grey areas may perform specific functions. The trick is anticipating the unique services offered by a patch of open space. For example, when trying to bring pollinators to fragmented G. keule stands, a pine plantation would be more beneficial than a clear cut.
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Tree Crops That Could Alleviate Hunger In Africa
We know that trees can help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide from the earth‘s atmosphere. But what is less widely understood is how many of these trees can also help to bring an end to hunger and poverty.
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Those Disposable Chopsticks Harm Biodiversity
The rapid growth in demand for bamboo resources over the last two decades has caused excessive exploitation of forest resources in the province. This has resulted in serious disturbance and destruction of the biodiversity of ecosystems in natural bamboo forests.
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Generosity Pays: The Plant-Fungal Marketplace
Nutrient exchanges between plant and fungal symbionts are relatively fair, with partners that provide the most resources being rewarded with more nutrients in return.