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How Trees and Turnips Grow Fatter
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Researchers unlock the secrets of radial growth
Date: January 9, 2019
Source: University of Cambridge
Summary: Botanists have identified key regulatory networks controlling how plants grow 'outwards,' which could help us to be more efficient
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Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life
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Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi.
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Farming the CO2 Factor
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Common weed killer linked to bee deaths
Source - Honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and are more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria. Scientists believe this is evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to...
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Policy-makers cannot afford to ignore soil sustainability
Source - In a new report, "Opportunities for soil sustainability in Europe", the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), which represents the national science academies of the EU, Norway, and Switzerland, says its latest synthesis reveals that policy-makers need to grasp opportunities to safeguard Europe's soils and ensure their sustainability. Back in 2014, insufficient support among...