Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have discovered a previously unknown protein that is central to plant reproduction.

Figure 1 | The lac1 mutant maize plants display smart-canopy-like plant architecture and increased grain yield at high density. a, Comparison of leaf angles at different canopy layers between a ...

In 2016, his lab screened the genes of seedlings to find mutant plants with unusual responses to light. They grew the seeds in a dark room with blue lights to direct the seedlings sideways. From there ...

In 2011, a horticulturist named Mathias Maier stumbled across an unusual mutant of a Venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant that traps and feeds on insects. Scientists recently discovered that the ...

Watch a Mutant Plant Burst Into Action When Attacked. Vivid new video shows the inner alarm bells that plants send out when they need to muster their defenses. By Nick Lunn. September 13, 2018 ...

Mutant plants reveal temperature sensor Discovery might allow scientists to create crop varieties better suited to warming world Date: October 27, 2016 Source: Washington University in St. Louis ...

To better understand their mutant plants, the Vierstra lab shared them with Jorge J. Casal lab in Argentina where doctoral student Martina Legris grew them under a wide variety of carefully ...

UK researchers have identified a mutant plant that is able to thrive on soil contaminated with high concentrations of the explosive TNT.The finding opens the way to cleaning up the vast swathes of ...

Mutant plants could become clean-up crews on the site of old explosions. by Ben Guarino. Sep. 4, 2015. Giphy via WWW.REDDIT.COM. TNT hurts. Trinitrotoluene, the chemical that makes dynamite so ...

Munitions like TNT pollute a vast amount of land, and a mutant plant could help remediate the soil. Here, mines, rockets and bombs, the equivalent of 750 kilograms of TNT, explode outside Kabul.

Within the mutant organism, "TNT is transformed by enzymes and becomes locked up, out of harm's way, in the plant's cell walls," says Neil Bruce, a biologist with the team who studies how plants ...

Mutant plant munches TNT, could help solve cleanup problems A new study suggests that a mutant variety of a cabbage relative thrives on TNT, pointing the way to a potentially elegant solution for ...