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Emerging methods in botanical DNA/RNA extraction – Call for papers for APPS special issue
Applications in Plant Sciences (APPS), the Botanical Society of America’s open access journal highlighting new tools and protocols across the plant sciences, is organizing a special issue titled, “Emerging methods in botanical DNA/RNA…
Mener en toute sérénité un vaste débat sur le génie génétique
Pour être durable, l’agriculture a un urgent besoin de nouvelles variétés de plantes. Après des décennies de stagnation politique, des cercles de plus en plus larges conviennent que scientifiquement infondées, des interdictions de…
Biology22 conference Basel, award winners
The Biology22 conference held at the University of Basel came to a close with the announcement of the talk and poster award winners. 1st prize talk: Selim Bouaouina (Univ Basel): Zones of secondary contact maintained by temporal isolation…How guard cells obtain energy
Sunlight triggers stomata, tiny pores on plant leaves, to open. They let in CO2 and O2 out to boost photosynthesis. The guard cells (GCs) that surround the stomatal pores play an important role in this stomatal movement process. But where…
Neue Gentechnik: Bauern wollen sich alle Optionen offen lassen
Bauer und Zürcher SVP-Nationalrat Martin Haab machte in der zuständigen Kommission des Nationalrats folgenden Vorschlag: Der Bundesrat bekommt Zeit bis Ende nächsten Jahres, einen Weg zu finden, wie mit Pflanzen und Saatgut umzugehen sei,…
Getting the big picture of biodiversity
Satellites and other remote sensing tools offer new ways to study ecosystems – and maybe even save them. Members of the Departement of Geography at the University of Zurich and the University Research Priority Program on Global Change and…
Shoots and roots respond differently to climate change
A new synthesis conducted by a group of international scientists including Madhav P. Thakur from the University of Bern reveals mismatches between above- and belowground plant phenology due to climate change. These findings are important to…
World Biodiversity Forum 2022: Register
Under the theme Inspiration for Action, the second World Biodiversity Forum will bring together researchers across all disciplines of biodiversity science with practitioners and societal actors in a forum that…
The secret drivers of tree growth
Most trees live in symbiosis with fungi. ETH Zurich researchers show just how important this partnership is for tree growth through the first-ever comprehensive data analysis compiled for European forests on a massive scale. Reference…