Brazil isn’t a likely place to search for novel edibles that would be hardy enough to grow in my 63.4°N garden. However, I actually grew this plant for many years before removing it to make way for edible plants. It isStachys byzantina(syn.S. lanataorS. olympica), lamb’s-ear or ...
My own book (Stebbins, 1950) is now old enough to be almost obsolete, and various other commitments make a complete revision unlikely during the next few years. I should like, therefore, to dedicate to Professor Dobzhansky on his 70th birthday a discussion of some of the most important ...
Fall armyworms are pests of corn plants. Credit: Nick Sloff, Penn State Plants may induce "leaky gut syndrome"—permeability of the gut lining—in insects as part of a multipronged strategy for protecting themselves from being eaten, according to researchers at Penn State. By improving our un...
"Movement of individual plants affects genetic diversity and species' capacity for adaptation," Beckman says. "Global changes, such as climate change or landscape fragmentation, that disrupt dispersal have consequences. With analytical tools, we can examine these consequences on plant performance, spatial...
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed new wound dressings that dramatically accelerate healing and improve tissue regener
"The power plants—coal, nuclear andnatural gas power plants—require water for cooling, so when you don't have the rain, you don't have the stream flow, you can't cool the power plant." That is already a problem for some power plants in the United States, Bielicki said, where extre...
Thisisn't the first timea change in ownership of travelling stock reserves has been flagged. Over the last century, as modern transport meant the reserves were used less and less for traditional droving, pressure to release these areas for conventional agriculture has increased. ...