North Carolina State University scientists and colleagues have completed the genome sequence and genetic map of one of the world’s most common and destructive plant parasites – Meloidogyne hapla, a microscopic, soil-dwelling worm known more commonly as the northern root-knot nematode.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) professor David Jackson, Ph.D., and a team of plant geneticists have identified a gene essential in controlling development of the maize plant, commonly known in the United States as corn. The new research extends the growing biological understanding of how the different parts of maize arise–important information for a plant [...]
Okay, you have completed all of your hard core training years at Hampton Cove Middle School. Now it’s time for the massive population of Huntsville High. More FREEDOM!!!!!!!
Mr. Phil McCrory spoke to 7th graders about the use of human hair in solving oil spill crisis and how hair breaks down to produce healthier, brighter, taller, more economically efficient plants. Human hair breaks down very slowly in fertilized soil and provides 15% nitrogen which aids many ways in plant growth. Mr. McCrory’s inspirational [...]
You are walking in the produce department in Wal-mart and you see this pitiful little lady in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank strapped to it. She begins to reach for a food item and can’t reach it.
Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called “graphene” as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor devices, perhaps paving the way for the massive installation of renewable energies such as wind and solar power.
The researchers believe [...]
Plants and soils act like sponges for atmospheric carbon dioxide, but new research finds that one abnormally warm year can suppress the amount of carbon dioxide taken up by some grassland ecosystems for up to two years. The findings, which followed an unprecedented four-year study of sealed, 12-ton containerized grassland plots at DRI is the [...]
