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15-May-2025

How do plants “otify” their neighbors in danger?

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have found that when tomato plants are infected with the late blight pathogen, neighboring healthy plants connected via the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) network can activate the defense genes related to jasmonic acid (JA) and salicylic acid (SA) within 24 hours, and this process is completely dependent on the direct connection of the hyphae.

Journal: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering

15-May-2025

New special issue in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B" reframes the origins of domestication

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

International researchers from a range of disciplines challenge long-held assumptions about one of the most transformative processes in human history

Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

15-May-2025

Feedlot cattle can brush their stresses away

Murdoch University

Feedlot cattle with access to grooming brushes are generally more content, sociable and have less stress, according to recent research out of Murdoch University’s Centre for Animal Production and Health.

Journal: Frontiers in Animal Science

14-May-2025

Combining laboratory techniques yields wealth of information about deadly brain tumors

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Clinicians from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and four other institutions have demonstrated that doctors can gain a wealth of knowledge about a patient’s cancer by using multiple laboratory techniques to study tumor tissue taken from needle biopsies of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

Journal: Nature Communications

14-May-2025

New global model shows how to bring environmental pressures back to 2015 levels by 2050

Utrecht University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A first-of-its-kind study in Nature finds that with bold and coordinated policy choices—across emissions, diets, food waste, and water and nitrogen efficiency—humanity could, by 2050, bring global environmental pressures back to levels seen in 2015. This shift would move us much closer to a future in which people around the world can live well within the Earth’s limits. “Our results show that it is possible to steer back toward safer limits, but only with decisive, systemic change,” says lead author Prof Detlef Van Vuuren, a researcher at Utrecht University and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

Journal: Nature

12-May-2025

FFAR taps Danforth Center plant scientists for crop research to preserve soil and water health

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Business Announcement

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and matching funders today awarded two Seeding Solutions grants totaling over $5 million to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) for crop development research.

9-May-2025

What NASA is learning from the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

On May 10, 2024, the first G5 or “severe” geomagnetic storm in over two decades hit Earth. The event, named the Gannon storm in memory of leading space weather physicist Jennifer Gannon, did not cause any catastrophic damages. But a year on, key insights from the Gannon storm are helping us understand and prepare for future geomagnetic storms.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics