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Leaves may warn flowers of oncoming caterpillar threats to protect their ovules

Amit Malewar -
Scientists discover plants use past attacks to protect flowers
Plants

Meet the New Sweet Bicolor Grape Tomato

Amit Malewar -
A new tomato variety is ready for its moment in the sun.
Plants

Potatoes rewrote their DNA 9 million years ago, thanks to a tomato cousin

Amit Malewar -
Tomato dad, potato kid?
Plants

Plants Are Getting Better at Spotting Bacteria, Here’s How

Amit Malewar -
Plants are learning to sniff out trouble.
Plants

How Galápagos tomatoes are losing evolutionary ground

Amit Malewar -
Reverse evolution!
Plants

Plant-based protein is linked to a longer life

Pranjal Malewar -
A global study has shown that countries that consume more plant-based proteins have longer adult life expectancies.
Plants

Too much nitrogen is harmful to plants. Study explains why

Pranjal Malewar -
Fertilization affects the plant immune system.
Plants

Quantum mechanical effects play a key role in photosynthesis

Pranjal Malewar -
Why do plants transport energy so efficiently and quickly?
Environment

The world’s living collections have collectively reached peak capacity

Pranjal Malewar -
Safeguarding the world’s most threatened plants from extinction.
Plants

World’s first COF sensors: Detecting dehydration in plants

Pranjal Malewar -
Sensors are capable of detecting pH changes in plant xylem.
Plants

Scientists cultivate a new variety of edible lily

Ashwini Sakharkar -
This is the first edible lily variety in China to be granted plant variety rights.
Plants

eDNA could help farmers boost crop production

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Study reveals how eDNA could bear fruit for farmers and the environment.
Plants

Clues found relating how plants survive in colder regions

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Same plant, different tactic!
Plants

Plants treated with herbicides incur more damage from insects

Jay Kakade -
While studying the eco-evolutionary implications of using herbicides, researchers at the University of Michigan found that insects do greater damage to herbicide-treated plants. The...
Plants

Some plants have superior photosynthesis abilities

Pranjal Malewar -
Over 3 billion years ago, photosynthesis first evolved in ancient bacteria on a water-covered Earth. Over millions of years, these bacteria evolved into plants,...
Plants

How do trees behave across various forest settings and weather events?

Pranjal Malewar -
Facing the wind!
Plants

Scientists are learning to help crops adapt to climate change

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Biologists found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant.
Plants

Electro-agriculture can enable the cultivation of food in the absence of light

Jay Kakade -
Using the same inputs as photosynthesis, electro-ag offers a 4-fold improvement in solar-to-food efficiency
Plants

Study shows indoor vertical gardens chew up energy for improvement

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Energy consumption must be carefully managed to ensure these systems are sustainable in the long term.
Plants

Researchers discover genes that help plants grow under stressful conditions

Ashwini Sakharkar -
How plants produce a novel anti-stress molecule?
Plants

First-ever method to monitor infections in plants in real-time

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Imaging of pathogens on lettuce leaves in real-time.
Plants

Scientists revived a 1000 years old tree from ancient seed

Jay Kakade -
During the surveys of caves in the northern Judean desert in 1986-89, the Archaeology Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recovered a seed...
Plants

Unveiling environmental impacts of genetically modified crops

Ashwini Sakharkar -
GM crops can produce more yield and profits.
Plants

Human urine: An eco-friendly crop fertilizer

Pranjal Malewar -
1 yr stored urine had little impact on soil bacterial communities and produced minimal change in soil pH.
Plants

How plants keep viruses from being passed to their progeny

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Discovery could reduce disease transmission to human kids.
Plants

Critical crops’ alternative way to survive stressful, dry conditions

Ashwini Sakharkar -
All C4 crops are critical for global food security.
Plants

Below-plant mirrors improve endangered plant growth and survival

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Improving growth and survival of Serianthes seedlings.
Plants

How do plant-derived aerosols influence plant interactions?

Pranjal Malewar -
The elemental composition and quantity of SOAs likely determines their biological functions.
Plants

Plants in arid zones display an extraordinary diversity

Ashwini Sakharkar -
Drier climate and livestock grazing pressure jointly help to shape the diversity of plant traits.
Plants

Tomato & potato fruit color, size evolved together

Dr. Prajakta Banik -
In-depth Phylogeny reveals linked evolution of fruit traits in Solanum L.
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