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豌豆可根据环境变化做出“适应性选择”
16-07-01 An international team of scientists from Oxford University, UK, and Tel-Hai College, Israel, has shown that pea plants can demonstrate sensitivity to risk - namely, that they can make adaptive choices that take into account environmental variance, a...
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高浓度CO2下某共生真菌使植物生长迅速
16-07-01 Research by an international team of environmental scientists from the United Kingdom, Belgium and United States, including Indiana University, has found that plants that associate with one type of symbiotic fungi grow bigger in response to high lev...
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北美荒原已大面积使用除草剂
16-06-30 University of Montana researchers are giving the public its first look at the widespread use of herbicides on federal and tribal land in North America, and they urge land managers to better document it. Herbicides originally were developed to suppre...
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poisonous land 毒地
16-05-25 After the poisonous land case in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, hit the headlines, students in another school in the same province recently also reported symptoms such as bleeding from their noses to body itching and skin peeling. 江苏常州毒地事件被曝...
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树是如何睡觉的
16-05-18 Most living organisms adapt their behavior to the rhythm of day and night. Plants are no exception: flowers open in the morning, some tree leaves close during the night. Researchers have been studying the day and night cycle in plants for a long tim...
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植物枯萎背后的机制被发现
16-04-22 A research team led by Associate Professor Miyake Chikahiro and PhD student Takagi Daisuke from the Kobe University Graduate School of Agricultural Science have reproduced the reaction in which harmful reactive oxygen species are created during plan...
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甜玉米内与拥挤胁迫相关的基因被发现
16-03-16 Plants grown in high-density or crowded populations often put more energy into growth and maintenance than reproduction. For example, flowering may be delayed as plants allocate resources to growing taller and escape competition for light. This sens...
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蜘蛛偶尔也会吃素
16-03-15 Spiders are known to be the classic example of insectivorous predators. Zoologists from the University of Basel, the US and UK have now been able to show that their diet is more diverse than expected. Their findings show that spiders like to spice u...
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设计师用多肉植物制作装饰品
16-03-12 Designer Susan McLeary is taking the jewelry world by storm with her incredibly stunning accessories made from living plants. She uses real succulents hand-picked from her family-owned greenhouse to craft intricate headpieces, necklaces, rings, brac...
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芦荻进行C3类型的光合作用
16-03-09 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Arundo donax, a giant reed that grows in the Mediterranean climate zones of the world, isn't like other prolific warm-weather grasses, researchers report. This grass, which can grow annually to 6 meters (nearly 20 feet) in height,...
