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

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.

"Instead of breeding mutant plants together to get multiple different genetic traits in one plant, which might take many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mutant plants both grew and produced seeds normally. However, when the plants lacking these two enzymes were infected ...

Rather, the union created a plant that lacked joints, yes, but with a lot more branches and flowers—far more than the plant had the energy to turn into fruit. The end result was fewer tomatoes.

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 ...

mutant plants 1 Articles . The Fascinating World Of Fasciation. April 22, 2021 by Kristina Panos 45 Comments . The other day, I saw this gigantic mutant strawberry on reddit that looked like it ...

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 ...