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Seeding success with machine learning and computer vision

Edited from a news release by Peter Bickerton (EI) and a news release from the John Innes Centre. Researchers have taught a new tool how to carry out one of crop breeding’s more challenging tasks. Growers need s...

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Studying biodiversity to understand evolution and improve sustainability

A study carried out by researchers from the University of Padua has identified new factors essential for the regulation of photosynthesis. The study was coordinated by Tomas Morosinotto in collaboration with Alessandro Alboresi, Mattia Storti, Mar...

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Researchers find key gene in watermelon sweetening

Edited from a news release (in Chinese). A study by Xu Yong’s research team from the Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences Vegetable Research Centre has revealed that a new sugar transporter protein, CIVST1, is...

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Flooding regime changes threaten long-living trees in the Amazon

Edited from a news release by Cimone Barros, Inpa (in Portugese). A study from the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) shows that environmental degradation, caused by the construction of hydroelectric dams in combination...

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Going with the wind

From a news release by Carol Hughes. Microbes are everywhere. Some cause disease, but many form helpful symbioses and make up microbiomes necessary for promoting good health. In fact, most plants on Earth form beneficial symbioses w...

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Exotic pathogen limits Mediterranean forest regeneration

Edited from a news release (in Spanish). A field study in the Los Alcornocales Natural Park in Cádiz has shown that exotic pathogens, particularly the Phytophthora cinnamomi oomycete, are a limiting factor in the regeneration...

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Revealing the secret relationships between plants and fungi

Edited from a Leiden University news release. Researchers from Leiden University have compiled information collected by scientists over the past 120 years into a new database of plant-fungal interactions. These important biological ...

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Scientists uncover plant protein’s role in drought resistance

Edited from a Washington State University press release. A team of scientists from Washington State University, Princeton University, and the Université Côte d’Azur have discovered how a little-understood pla...

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Announcing our Tansley Medal winners

We are very pleased to celebrate two winners for this year's New Phytologist Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science! The judges voted to award the prize jointly to: Liana Burghardt, for her Tansley insight 'Evolvin...

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Call for papers: Crop digital information - sharing access and benefits

Access to crop digital information and the sharing of benefits derived from its use: background and perspectives High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies and emerging ‘phenomic’ approaches have combined with new ways ...

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