13-08-01 Ethanol（乙醇） from corn and other plants could become the sustainable, raw material for a huge variety of products, from plastic packaging to detergents（洗涤剂） to synthetic rubber, that are currently petroleum-based. This was the conclusion of...

13-07-27 Recently, climate change, including global warming, has been a hot news item as many regions of the world have experienced increasingly intense weather patterns, such as powerful hurricanes and extended floods or droughts. Often the emphasis is on h...

13-06-27 Contrary to popular belief, crabgrass（马唐草） does not thrive in lawns, gardens and farm fields by simply crowding out other plants. A new study in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has found that the much-despised weed actually prod...

13-06-26 Plants possess receptors which are similar to the glutamate（谷氨酸） receptors in the brain of humans and animals. Biochemists at the Ruhr-Universitt Bochum (RUB) with colleagues from the University of Wrzburg and the Agricultural University of Chi...

13-06-25 New research shows that to prevent starvation at night, plants perform accurate arithmetic（算术，算法） division. The calculation allows them to use up their starch（淀粉） reserves at a constant rate so that they run out almost precisely at dawn....

13-05-28 The accelerating disappearance of Earth's species of both wild and domesticated plants and animals constitutes a fundamental threat to the well-being and even the survival of humankind, warns the founding Chair of a new global organization created t...

13-05-24 Plants can't swat（重拍，猛击） a bug or run away from one, but that doesn't mean that plants can't fight back. Plants have evolved unique and sophisticated immune systems to defend themselves against insects and pathogens. Plant hormones called jas...

13-05-24 A team of researchers has captured images of green alga consuming bacteria, offering a glimpse at how early organisms dating back more than 1 billion years may have acquired free-living photosynthetic（光合的） cells. This acquisition is thought to...

13-05-13 The gardener's best friend, the earthworm, is great at protecting leaves from being chomped（格格地咬牙） by slugs（蛞蝓） , suggests research in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology. Although they lurk（潜伏） in the soil, they seem to...

13-05-13 More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research from the University of East Anglia. Research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change loo...