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Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma: use limited resources to out-compete their neighbors for light to grow, or, invest directly in defense against hungry insects. Now, an international team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Institute of Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la AgronomÃa (IFEVA) has discovered how plants weigh the tradeoffs and redirect their energies accordingly.The...
U.S. agricultural geneticists say they've identified a gene that's essential in controlling development of maize, a plant known in the United States as corn. Led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor David Jackson, the research extends the biological understanding of how the different parts of maize arise. That, said Jackson, is important information for a plant that is the most widely planted crop in the United States and a mainstay of the global food supply. The researchers said they...
By Portillo, Liberato Santacruz-Ruvalcaba, Fernando; Gutierrez-Mora, Antonia; Rodriguez-Garay, Benjamin Abstract Somatic embryogenesis was achieved from leaves of Agave tequilana Weber cultivar azul utilizing MS medium supplemented with L2 vitamins and the addition of cytokinins: 6-benzylaminopurine (BA), 1-phenyl-3(1,2,3-thiadiazol-5-yl)urea (TDZ), 6-(gamma-gamma- dimethylamino)purine (2ip) and 6-furfurylaminopurine (KIN), combined with the auxin 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)....
By Glick, Bernard R Todorovic, Biljana; Czarny, Jennifer; Cheng, Zhenyu; Duan, Jin; McConkey, Brendan To date, there has been only limited commercial use of plant growth-promoting bacteria in agriculture, horticulture, and silviculture. However, with recent progress toward understanding the mechanisms that these organisms utilize to facilitate plant growth, the use of plant growth-promoting bacteria is expected to continue to increase worldwide. One of the key mechanisms employed by plant...
STORRS, Conn. "“ A team of scientists led by University of Connecticut plant biologist Roberto Gaxiola has discovered an overlooked genetic key to generating plants that are more productive, more drought resistant and can grow in soils low in nutrients. Their work is the first to successfully test in cells a 30-year-old hypothesis that explains the movement of a primary growth and development hormone through plants and is expected to prompt biology textbooks to be rewritten.The researchers...
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease (the formation of tumours) in over 140 species of dicot. It is rod shaped. Symptoms are caused by the insertion of a small segment of DNA into the plant cell. It is an alphaproteobacterium of the family Rhizobiaceae which includes the nitrogen fixing legume symbionts. They are pathogenic and provide no benefit to the plant. It also affects a wide variety of plants. In an economical sense it affects walnuts, grape vines,...
