Eukaryotic Biotech

10/18/2021

Most Bazar Genotype I have ever seen

10/18/2021

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211013114031.htm

Leading a double life in water and on land, frogs have many breathing techniques -- through the gills, lungs, and skin -- over the course of their lifetime. Now scientists have developed another method that allows tadpoles to 'breathe' by introducing algae into their bloodstream to supply oxygen. Th...

10/18/2021

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211013114039.htm

When an asteroid struck 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three-quarters of life on Earth, early ancestors of primates and marsupials were among the only tree-dwelling (arboreal) mammals that survived, according to a new study.

10/14/2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26238-3

The logistical and practical challenges of supplying food for long-term space missions are substantial. In this comment, the authors discuss potential biotechnological approaches that could be used to aid the production of food crops in space.

10/13/2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01556-3

As global temperature and climate variability increase, overshoot droughts resulting from previously high plant growth could intensify climate–vegetation feedbacks.

09/04/2020

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200904121324.htm

Researchers have discovered how a protein in plant roots controls the uptake of minerals and water, a finding which could improve the tolerance of agricultural crops to climate change and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers.

09/04/2020

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/618

The cutting of the shoot of one plant (the scion) and joining, or grafting, to another (the rootstock) has been a practice of growers for millennia. The resulting chimeric organisms have enabled propagation of fruits and vegetables with desired characteristics, control of tree size to facilitate fru...

09/20/2019

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article235211037.html

Measures making it easier for h**p growers to do business may be included in a bill to allow banks to conduct business with state-approved ma*****na growers and retailers.

09/20/2019

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.vcstar.com/amp/2237319001

H**p could bring a big boost to agriculture, but the mayor of Ojai wants Ventura County to stop registering new farming operations until regulations are passed.

01/04/2019

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-way-genetically-tweak-photosynthesis-boosts-plant-growth

A new chemical road map for a process called photorespiration in plant cells could reduce energy waste to increase plant productivity.

12/24/2018

https://www.health.com/health/article/0,,20428734,00.html

The smell of freshly-cut pine trees fills the air with seasonal joy.