Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies
... paper, in the lab of Dr. Nina Allen, professor of
botany and co-author of the paper. Weerasinghe first observed the changes in the plants triggered by signals from rhizobia, called Nod factors, and then saw the similar changes occurring when plants were signaled by root-knot nematodes. In the paper, the re...
Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes
...ent now at Butler University; and Jessica Young, a
botany and plant pathology laboratory technician. Lolle, a Purdue research scientist, is currently at the National Science Foundation. ...
No relief for Pacific Northwest drought
...gist with the U.S. Forest Service and professor of
botany at OSU. Severe drought does not automatically translate into major fires, said Neilson and colleague James Lenihan, a fire and ecosystem modeler. "It takes ignition sources such as lightning storms to trigger multiple fires, and that doesn't always...
Genetic discovery could lead to drought-resistant plants
...Current Biology. "It's very exciting," says U of T
botany professor and senior author Malcolm Campbell. "This is a gene that helps regulate carbon dioxide uptake. If plants are the Earth's lungs, we've just discovered a key piece of information about how the Earth breathes." The pores on the surface of pla...
Biologists discover new pathway into plant cells
...xisted," said Lynda Ciuffetti, an OSU professor of
botany and plant pathology. "Viruses and bacteria have been known to bring proteins into cells, but this is just a protein by itself crossing the cell wall barrier without disrupting its integrity. This is a significant fundamental advance in our understand...
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Zoology
...ehavior, invertebrate zoology ) See also
botany - the area of biology which studies plants list of biologists zootomy - the study of animal anatomy or animal dissection zoological distribution palaeontology oceanography microtomy Important publications in zoology ...
Stoma
In
botany , a stoma (also stomate ; plural stomata ) is a tiny opening or pore , found mostly on the undersurface of a plant leaf , and used for gas exchange. Air containing carbon dioxide and oxygen enters the plant through these openings where...
Species
... zoology only the subspecies is used, while in
botany the variety , subvariety , and form are used as well. The isolation species concept in more detail In general, for large, complex, organisms that reproduce sexually (such as mammals and birds ), one of several variations on the isolation...
Plant physiology
In
botany , plant physiology is the study of the function, or physiology of plants . Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis , respiration and transpiration are studied by plant physiologists. It is closely related to biochemistry and molec...
Paleontology
... the study of rocks and rock formations, and with
botany , biology , zoology , and ecology , fields concerned with living creatures and how they interact. Palynology is the study of pollen, whether modern or geological. The major subdivisions of paleontology include paleozoology (animals), paleobo...
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Zoology
...he confocal microscope came up in the 1960's for
botany and zoology and microbiologists never used it. B... volume on December 6, 1995. Brian Speer added the
botany volume on 12 February 1996. Full article >>> Send comments to: Sandra Ackerley ( acke...
Mycology
...ir dangers, ... Full article >>> In
botany and mycology names at the rank of family and below are based on the name of a genus , sometimes called the type genus of that taxon , with a standard ending. Full article >>>...
Carpel
...ticle >>> Hermaphrodite is used in
botany to describe a flower that has both staminate (male, pollen-producing) and carpel ate (female, seed -producing) parts. Other terms for this condition are bi sexual and perfect. Full article >>> plant s with seeds enclosed by carp...
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South Africans Turn to Natural Remedies for Treating Erectile Dysfunction
...owed it is just as effective," Marion Meyer of the
botany department at the University of Pretoria was quoted as saying. Villagers jealously guard the trees and only local tribal chiefs have authority to sell the crushed roots, the newspaper said. Many of the trees in and around the area's Brackenridge ...
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