Haberlandt’s Dogmatic Dream and Its First Realisation

As vividly described in the review by Vasil (2008), the alleged friendship between the botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804–1881)...

Improving Heat Tolerance in Plants

A research group of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), led by Luis Gómez, a professor of the Forestry School and the Centre...

Potatoes Plant

Potato, edible starchy tuber. It is produced by certain plants of a genus of the nightshade family, especially the common white potato. The...

Rice Research

From the 1950s to 1970s, in an effort to combat world hunger, plant breeders at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines...

Production And Using of Rice

Asian countries produced about 90 percent of the 576 million tons of rice grown worldwide in 2002. Typically, China and India together produce...

Phytochrome Response Modes

Decades of physiological investigation have resulted in the identification of several distinct ‘response modes’, based on photobiological criteria...

The Phytochromes and Their Functions

The Phytochrome Family of Photoreceptors The phytochromes are a family of photoreceptors that absorb radiation across the 600–800 nm waveband....

Plant Biotechnology Field of Dreams

Plant Biotechnology Field of DreamsThe field of plant biotechnology is concerned with developing ways to improve theproduction of plants in...

Biotechnology of production in plants and fungi

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Anew building to accommodate growth of federally funded research in plant sciences.

Plant Science ExpansionView more presentations from Michigan State University College of Natural Science.Plant Science Expansion - Presentation...

The Components of Plant Tissue Culture Media I : Macro- and Micro-Nutrients

INORGANIC MEDIUM COMPONENTSPlant tissues and organs are grown in vitro on artificial media, which supply the nutrients necessary for growth....

Haberlandt ( The father of plant tissue culture )

The father of plant tissue culture is considered to be the German Botanist HABERLANDT who conceived the concept of cell culture in 1902."There...

Rapid Advancements in Plant Breeding

University of Illinois research has resulted in the development of a novel and widely applicable molecular tool that can serve as a road map...

Unique Plant (Parnassia fimbriata)

A bit of BPotD news before today"s entry: we finally have a date and time set to transition the web site over to the new server. It"s been a...

Green Super Rice Have Been Planted

Rice bred to perform well in the toughest conditions where the poorest farmers grow rice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major...

Heavy metal hyperaccumulating plants: How and why do they do it? And what makes them so interesting?

Nicoletta Rascioa, , and Flavia Navari-Izzob a Department of Biology, University of Padova, via U. Bassi 58/B, I-35121 Padova, Italyb Department...

All About Plant

I INTRODUCTIONPlant, any member of the plant kingdom, comprising about 260,000 known species of mosses, liverworts, ferns, herbaceous and woody...

Geneticists shed light on flowering plants

In winter or early spring, Arabidopsis plants without an active DNF gene are already flowering (right). Those with the DNF gene will delay flowering...

With fungi on their side, rice plants grow to be big

Morning dew gathering on rice leaves at a farm. Researchers at a Swiss university said Thursday that they have uncovered a microscopic fungus...

Climate change complicates plant diseases of the future

Researchers evaluate soybean plants within a ring of ozone in the SoyFACE facility in Urbana, Ill. Credit: Carrie Ramig, USDA-ARS & University...