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DMSO raises a stink at sewage treatment plants
Researchers believe they've found the source of a stinking problem that has plagued areas surrounding sewage treatment plants for decades.   view more (2005-12-21)

Costly plant tumors are found by Cornell microbiologist to be result of soil bacterium 'smelling' and entering wound
How does a wound in certain plants like roses and grapevines develop into a tumor? The answer appears to lie in a common soil bacterium that is able to "smell" the wound and speed up the infection process.   view more (2005-10-24)

Scientists Discover What Plants Do During Long Winter Nights
In research published today scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich(1), report on what plants do during the hours of darkness. During daylight hours plants use the energy from sunlight to power the production of food (sugar) from carbon dioxide and water. This process (photosynthesis) is... view more (2003-12-29)

New approaches to the construction of genetically modified plants may avoid Syngenta and Monsanto patents
An article in the journal Nature published on 10th Feb (Gene transfer to plants by diverse species of bacteria) reports that a group of researchers in Canberra Australia have demonstrated that the ability to perform transfers of DNA from microbial cells to plant cells is not, as was previously... view more (2005-02-08)

Heterosis in populations in nature of a domesticated plant
Few studies quantify evolutionary processes in populations of domesticated plants in traditional farming systems. In February's Ecology Letters, Pujol, David and McKey show that these systems offer unusual opportunities for studying microevolution.   view more (2005-02-08)

Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides
Arizona farmers receive the same yield/acre, use fewer chemical insecticides and maintain insect biodiversity when they plant the biotech cotton known as Bt cotton, according to new research.   view more (2006-05-02)

Subproducts resulting from disinfecting drinkable water
For his PhD thesis, Unai Iriarte Velasco analysed strategies for reducing levels of subproducts from the disinfection of drinkable water and their application in optimising the functioning of water treatment plants.   view more (2005-09-09)

Food Biotechnology: Real World Challenges
Genetically modified crops have been widely adopted by American farmers. In spite of their use in the United States, the European Union (EU) imposed a 6-year freeze (1998-2004) on growing and importing transgenic crops.   view more (2008-04-09)

Greener offices make happier employees
According to the 2000 census, Americans office workers spend an average of 52 hours a week at their desks or work stations.   view more (2008-05-20)

Researchers create pigs that produce heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids
Researchers report they have created pigs that produce omega-3 fatty acids, which are known to improve heart function and help reduce the risks for heart disease, representing the first cloned transgenic livestock in the world that can make the beneficial compound.   view more (2006-03-27)

Insect warning colors aid cancer and tropical disease drug discovery
Brightly colored beetles or butterfly larvae nibbling on a plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer cell lines and tropical parasitic diseases, according to researchers at Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute in Panama.   view more (2008-07-09)

Why does an anti-anthrax drug kill plants too?
Scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich (1) have today reported that a very successful antibiotic, which is harmless to humans but lethal to most bacteria, also kills plants. They have found that an enzyme, which is an important target for several families of antibiotics and was thought... view more (2004-05-12)

Plant-derived vaccines safeguard against deadly plague
Through an innovative feat of plant biotechnology and vaccine design, researchers in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have successfully turned tobacco plants into vaccine production factories to combat the deadliest form of plague.   view more (2006-01-10)

Why Plants Talk To Insects - New Research from Imperial At Chelsea Flower Show (22-25 May)
Why talking to insects is so important to a plant's well-being is the theme of an unusual display at this year's Chelsea Flower show (22-25 May). The display, jointly staged by Imperial College at Wye and the ICI subsidiary, Quest International, will show how plants use scent and colour to attract... view more (2001-05-02)

Plants can be used to study how and why people respond differently to drugs
While prescription medications work successfully to cure an ailment in some people, in others the same dose of the same drug can cause an adverse reaction or no response at all.   view more (2007-09-27)

Gardens in space
A model of a system for growing plants to plan biological experiments in space has just left the company of ROVSING, in Ballerup near Copenhagen, on its way to ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands. The full name of this experiment reference model is... view more (2002-05-13)

Who found some new mechanisms of HBV virulence?
This dreadful HBV is small in size. The genome of this virus is a partial double stranded circle. When made fully double stranded, this genome carries about 3000 base pairs, compared to 200 kilo base pairs of the genome of the smallpox virus.   view more (2008-02-25)

UT Knoxville professor finds unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity
What began with an off-the-cuff curiosity eventually led Joe Williams to hang from the limbs of a tree 80 feet above the soil of northeastern Australia.   view more (2008-07-29)

Food safety begins as vegetables grow
Monitoring vegetables while they are growing is crucial in the prevention of contamination of fresh produce with harmful bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella, say plant pathologists who are members of The American Phytopathological Society (APS).   view more (2007-06-12)

John Innes Scientists Scoop Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show
The exhibit is a "fashion show" which explains how jumping genes, virus disease infection and bizarre chimeras cause the beautiful foliage and flowers we admire in plants. The display features a collection of beautiful common and unusual plants as "models" on the fashion catwalk.   view more (1999-05-25)

Columbine flowers develop long nectar spurs in response to pollinators
In flowers called columbines, evolution of the length of nectar spurs--the long tubes leading to plants' nectar--happens in a way that allows flowers to match the tongue lengths of the pollinators that drink their nectar, biologists have found.   view more (2007-06-08)

New toxicity test could cut animal testing
To test whether chemicals are toxic to humans, researchers need to use liver cells that have been freshly harvested from mice or other mammals. A new collection of stable cell lines, described in BMC Biotechnology this week, could reduce the numbers of animals needed in such experiments. The MMH-GH... view more (2004-03-17)

Would you like gene chips with your salad ?
The first public release of plant gene chip information is being launched at the Society for Experimental Biology conference in Swansea on Friday 12th April. Scientists from the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC), part of a multi-million pound resource network, will announce a newly... view more (2002-04-11)

From laboratory demonstrators over systems to indispensable process plants
Today microreactors are already valuable informants for the process development in the laboratory area. According to a study of the French consulting company YOLE Développement and Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (IMM) the readiness of industry clients to buy such microreaction... view more (2002-08-15)

Nightshades: 'overflowing' with Phytophthora resistant genes?
The potato and other related varieties of the Solanum species contain scores or perhaps even hundreds of genes that can give the plant a degree of resistance to 'potato blight', a disease caused by Phytophthora infestans. This is one of the conclusions that came to light in Vivianne Vleeshouwers'... view more (2001-02-01)
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