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New UAV-based system enables efficient forest restoration monitoring

1 December 2022

New UAV-based system enables efficient forest restoration monitoring Ecologists at the Conservation Research Institute have developed a new method of mapping early successional species in tropical forests using Unoccupied Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) to generate reference crown images with attached GPS, a system that will enable...

Plants employ chemical engineering to manufacture bee-luring optical devices

24 November 2022

Plants employ chemical engineering to manufacture bee-luring optical devices Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees. While most flowers produce pigments that appear colourful and act as a visual cue to pollinators, some...

Modelling the future of soils in the world’s savanna-grasslands

22 November 2022

Modelling the future of soils in the world’s savanna-grasslands – new tools to help manage 24 million square km of drylands A new grant from the ERC's ‘Starting Grants’ scheme will fund studies to improve carbon credit schemes in dryland areas by boosting our grasp of the effects of periodic fire events on carbon capture...

Beneficial fungi induce lateral root development via a generic mechanism

16 November 2022

Beneficial fungi induce lateral root development via a generic mechanism Research by Crop Science Centre scientists’ sheds light on the relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and lateral root development in angiosperms. Professor Uta Paszkowski, an author of this research, said “This is a significant...

Protecting tropical forests through carbon finance can work

10 November 2022

New evidence suggests that REDD+ projects in the tropics have helped reduce deforestation, particularly in regions of rapid land use change Tropical deforestation and degradation are significant contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. Projects aimed at Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (...

Arabidopsis thaliana plant infected with the cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii

The hologenome theory of susceptibility-gene discovery – a boost for crop disease resistance

27 October 2022

The hologenome theory of Susceptibility-gene discovery – an innovative way to boost disease resistance in crop plants Scientists at the Crop Science Centre , a joint initiative of the Department of Plant Sciences and the National Institute for Agricultural Botany , in collaboration with partners around the world and...

Hurricanes help speed-up forests’ adaptation to warmer temperatures

10 October 2022

A recent study by Dr Edmund Tanner and colleagues shows that damage caused to forests by hurricanes in Jamaica enables lower-altitude, warmer-temperature-loving species to fill the gaps, and helps the forest adapt to the rising temperatures that result from climate change. hurricane-...

DNA techniques reveal new and unusual tulip species - Tulipa toktogulica – from Kyrgyzstan

28 September 2022

DNA techniques reveal new and unusual tulip species - Tulipa toktogulica – from Kyrgyzstan Taxonomists in the Department of Plant Sciences and the University Botanic Garden, in partnership with colleagues from the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic in Kyrgyzstan, have discovered a new and unusual tulip...

New grants to boost understanding of how pathogens exploit their plant hosts and how plants resist attack

27 September 2022

New grants to boost understanding of how pathogens exploit their plant hosts and how plants resist attack Professor John Carr and colleagues in the Plant Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology Group at the Department of Plant Sciences have been awarded new grants from the Leverhulme Trust and UKRI’s Biology and...

Sarab Sethi and colleague in the forest canopy

Listening from afar: a hands-off approach to monitoring biodiversity

14 September 2022

A new, hands-off approach to monitoring biodiversity is saving time and money, and helping to identify sites where intervention is most needed. Close your eyes and imagine the sounds on a busy city street. Now imagine the sounds in a forest. Even if you can’t identify specific noises in the mix, the overall sound has...

New UAV-based system enables efficient forest restoration monitoring

Plants employ chemical engineering to manufacture bee-luring optical devices

Modelling the future of soils in the world’s savanna-grasslands

Beneficial fungi induce lateral root development via a generic mechanism

Protecting tropical forests through carbon finance can work

The hologenome theory of susceptibility-gene discovery – a boost for crop disease resistance

Hurricanes help speed-up forests’ adaptation to warmer temperatures

DNA techniques reveal new and unusual tulip species - Tulipa toktogulica – from Kyrgyzstan

New grants to boost understanding of how pathogens exploit their plant hosts and how plants resist attack

Listening from afar: a hands-off approach to monitoring biodiversity

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