Plants
DARPA Aims to Create Armies of ‘Insect Allies’ to Protect Crops Worldwide
| Arthur Dominic Villasanta | | Nov 03, 2016 11:16 PM EDT |
"DARPA plans to harness the power of this natural system by engineering genes inside plant viruses that can be transmitted by insects to confer protective traits to the target plants they feed upon."
Carnivorous Bladderwort has More DNA than Genes
| Marco Foronda | | Feb 24, 2015 09:48 AM EST |
The carnivorous little plant is gaining and throwing away DNA at an unusually rapid pace.
Lab Breakthrough Paves Way for Improved Crops
| Marc Maligalig | | Oct 31, 2014 09:40 AM EDT |
This means that specific tissues of a plant can be made to enhance desired traits.
Plants Reduce Carbon Dioxide Levels, Invalidating Predicted Levels
| Marc Maligalig | | Oct 14, 2014 08:00 PM EDT |
A team of Scientists in the United States claim that the climate models used to anticipate the increase of CO2 concentrations in the air are about 17 percent higher because of incorrectly approximating the amount of the greenhouse gas plants use for photosynthesis.
Plants to Sniff-Out Landmines
| Marc Maligalig | | Aug 15, 2014 01:22 PM EDT |
Leaking landmines release small amounts of their chemical explosives over time.
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