The molecule cAMP, which plays essential roles in mammalian cells, is less well understood in plants. In a new Science ...
Oceanic islands provide useful models for ecology, biogeography and evolutionary research. Many ground-breaking findings -- including Darwin's theory of evolution -- have emerged from the study of ...
A Hiroshima-University-led research team has discovered a key gene responsible for the initiation of gemma development, ...
The study of medicinal plants represents a vital interdisciplinary field at the intersection of traditional botanical knowledge and modern life sciences. In ...
It is said that 10 to 15% of the world's agricultural production loss is caused by diseases, which is equivalent of the food for about 500 million people. And since 70-80% of this plant disease is ...
The ability of plants to grow faster and stronger is traced to autophagy, along with key enzymes and proteins such as AFR7, ...
Professor Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, holds an Arabidopsis plant while Professor Jawdat Al-Bassam, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, holds a model of the augmin protein complex.