Science news articles about 'plant seedlings'

  • Plants prefer their kin, but crowd out competition when sharing a pot with strangers

    ... . It follows previous research from McMaster University which found that plants can recognize their kin through root systems ... their siblings to access precious sunlight." When researchers planted seedlings of a North American species of shade ...
  • May's Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features plant gene expression methods, Xenopus imaging

    ... -Mediated Transient Gene Expression in Seedlings of Arabidopsis and Other Plant Species," a quick, efficient and economical ... . The technique involves cocultivation of young plant seedlings and Agrobacterium in the presence of Silwet-77. The Silwet ...
  • Biodiversity's holy grail is in the soil

    ... of common species. Mangan planted seedlings of five species under adults of each species ... -exist and importantly the strength of those interactions can be measured and plant species that are most abundant are least influenced by the soil ...
  • Plant clock gene also works in human cells

    ... also have a fast-running clock. When the researchers inserted the plant gene into the defective human cells, they could set ... -- and the human gene could do the same trick in plant seedlings. Because the rest of the clock genes ...
  • Unlocking the secrets of a plant’s light sensitivity

    ... . While under the soil's surface, in the dark, plant seedlings grow in a special way that speeds ... seedlings which type of growth to pursue. GATA2 is part of the GATA factor class of proteins, which are found in plants ...
  • Notre Dame biologists call for regulation of rare plant sales

    ... , such as the Torreya Guardians, are legally planting seedlings of the Florida torreya outside its current range to aid ... species. The widespread transfer of endangered or threatened plants poses both environmental and economic risks ...
  • Seedlings thrive with distant relatives, seeds with close family

    ... variety of plant seedlings suffer most from competition when planted with close relatives, and grow best when planted ... predictions about species coexistence? In a lath house, they planted seedlings of 12 focal species of angiosperms ...
  • Do urban 'heat islands' hint at trees of future?

    ... . In spring 2007 and 2008, Searle and colleagues planted seedlings in northeastern Central Park, near ... .2 million trees and is in the midst of a campaign to plant more. "Cities are special places -- they might be laboratories ...

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