Science news articles about 'plants and insects'Insect warning colors aid cancer and tropical disease drug discovery
... could speed drug discovery and provide insight into the ecological relationships between tropical-forest plants and insects that feed on them. The report is published in the Ecological Society of ... Ecologists tease out private lives of plants and their pollinators
... highest quality pollen, packing 65% more protein into their pollen than plant species that do not have to rely on insect pollinators. They also discovered that bumblebees prefer to visit plants with ... DNA fingerprinting simplified
... In this exercise, the internally transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal subunit for a fungus, plant, and insect are amplified and separated electrophoretically on agarose gels. A simple crime is ... Plant biologists discover unexpected proteins affecting small RNAs
... microRNAs are the next big thing in both plant and animal molecular biology. Discovered a decade ... response,” he said. “If climate change occurs there is no doubt that insect pest populations will shift ... New study reveals hidden neotropical diversity
... in Science Cornell College biology professor Marty Condon and coauthors turn current thought on plant-feeding insect diversity on its head. The study used an examination of fruit fly ... Native Plants Can Also Benefit From The Invasive Ones
... as the prickly pear, invade Mediterranean ecosystems, and can either rob the native plants of pollinating insects, or, surprisingly, can attract them, thus benefiting the whole plant community, such ... Insect release proposed to control exotic strawberry guava
... poka and ivy gourd.
Non-native plants became invasive in Hawaií because they escaped ... decreasing its spread over a period of years. The insect does not kill the plant outright.
Observations in Brazil ... Biological Control: Insect Release Proposed To Control Exotic Strawberry Guava
... scientists with the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry have submitted a proposal to release a Brazilian insect to control the spread of strawberry guava, a South American tree that has invaded and ... First Plant Disease Clinic to Aid Farmers Opened in Bangladesh
... outbreaks of leaf blight and insect pests are now getting expert help from Southeast Asia's first plant disease identification clinic, established by an American plant pathologist with ... Mate choice in plants
... are clever devices for attracting pollinators like birds, ants, and insects, but there are also mechanisms for keeping out unwanted pollen. Some plants happily self-fertilize with their own pollen ... Rare Antarctic fossils reveal extinction of tundra before full polar climate arrived
... inhabited the lake, we have recovered pollen and spores, and a few macroscopic remains of plants and insects that inhabited the lake regions," the paper states.
"Everything about the fossil site, ... Bitter-tasting nectar and floral odors optimize outcrossing for plants
... .
The scientists also observed that nicotine in the nectar deters flower-eating insects which have a straightforward negative impact on reproduction. Odorant attractants lure not only pollinators ... Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open
London's Natural History Museum unveils the interactive centre that will soon house 34 million plant and insect specimens.Biocontrol insect exacerbates invasive weed
... eggs in the weed's flowers, and after the larvae hatch they induce the plant to grow tissue around the insect, encasing it and isolating it from the rest of the plant.
"The woody galls wall off the ... Economic value of insect pollination worldwide estimated at 153 billion euros
... , at least in economic terms.
The scientists also found that the average value of crops that depend on insect pollinators for their production was on average much higher than that of the crops not ...
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Insect warning colors aid cancer and tropical disease drug discovery
... could speed drug discovery and provide insight into the ecological relationships between tropical-forest plants and insects that feed on them. The report is published in the Ecological Society of ...Ecologists tease out private lives of plants and their pollinators
... highest quality pollen, packing 65% more protein into their pollen than plant species that do not have to rely on insect pollinators. They also discovered that bumblebees prefer to visit plants with ...DNA fingerprinting simplified
... In this exercise, the internally transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal subunit for a fungus, plant, and insect are amplified and separated electrophoretically on agarose gels. A simple crime is ...Plant biologists discover unexpected proteins affecting small RNAs
... microRNAs are the next big thing in both plant and animal molecular biology. Discovered a decade ... response,” he said. “If climate change occurs there is no doubt that insect pest populations will shift ...New study reveals hidden neotropical diversity
... in Science Cornell College biology professor Marty Condon and coauthors turn current thought on plant-feeding insect diversity on its head. The study used an examination of fruit fly ...Native Plants Can Also Benefit From The Invasive Ones
... as the prickly pear, invade Mediterranean ecosystems, and can either rob the native plants of pollinating insects, or, surprisingly, can attract them, thus benefiting the whole plant community, such ...Insect release proposed to control exotic strawberry guava
... poka and ivy gourd. Non-native plants became invasive in Hawaií because they escaped ... decreasing its spread over a period of years. The insect does not kill the plant outright. Observations in Brazil ...Biological Control: Insect Release Proposed To Control Exotic Strawberry Guava
... scientists with the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry have submitted a proposal to release a Brazilian insect to control the spread of strawberry guava, a South American tree that has invaded and ...First Plant Disease Clinic to Aid Farmers Opened in Bangladesh
... outbreaks of leaf blight and insect pests are now getting expert help from Southeast Asia's first plant disease identification clinic, established by an American plant pathologist with ...Mate choice in plants
... are clever devices for attracting pollinators like birds, ants, and insects, but there are also mechanisms for keeping out unwanted pollen. Some plants happily self-fertilize with their own pollen ...Rare Antarctic fossils reveal extinction of tundra before full polar climate arrived
... inhabited the lake, we have recovered pollen and spores, and a few macroscopic remains of plants and insects that inhabited the lake regions," the paper states. "Everything about the fossil site, ...Bitter-tasting nectar and floral odors optimize outcrossing for plants
... . The scientists also observed that nicotine in the nectar deters flower-eating insects which have a straightforward negative impact on reproduction. Odorant attractants lure not only pollinators ...Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open
London's Natural History Museum unveils the interactive centre that will soon house 34 million plant and insect specimens.Biocontrol insect exacerbates invasive weed
... eggs in the weed's flowers, and after the larvae hatch they induce the plant to grow tissue around the insect, encasing it and isolating it from the rest of the plant. "The woody galls wall off the ...Economic value of insect pollination worldwide estimated at 153 billion euros
... , at least in economic terms. The scientists also found that the average value of crops that depend on insect pollinators for their production was on average much higher than that of the crops not ...