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Illustration: plants In Sync with the Sun

In Sync with the Sun

01.10.2003
Biochemistry, Plants and Agriculture
A plant biological clock is set to peak early in the day, before the strongest sunlight hits
Prof. Dan Yakir

Greenhouse Gas Might Green Up the Desert

12.05.2003
Environment, Plants and Agriculture
Weizmann Institute study suggests that rising carbon dioxide levels might cause forests to spread into dry environments    
Bring On the Rain

Bring On the Rain

01.05.2003
Space & Physics, Climate
A new formula for predicting rain factors in whirling droplets
Deinococcus radiodurans

Lord of the Ring

01.05.2003
Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Plants and Agriculture, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology
What gives a bacterium the ability to withstand 3000 times more radiation than humans?
For the Love of Wheat

For the Love of Wheat

01.05.2003
Plants and Agriculture
Three generations of scientists united by a fascination with wheat
Sling Effect in Clouds Brings on the Rain

Sling Effect in Clouds Brings on the Rain

30.10.2002
Climate, Mathematics
New formula developed by Weizmann Institute physicists may improve rain prediction Weizmann Institute physicists have revealed that turbulence in...
Kenyan farmer in an experimental corn field

Uprooting Hunger in Africa

01.10.2002
Plants and Agriculture, Biotechnology
A parasite-fighting technique triples corn harvests on experimental plots
Profs. David Milstein (left) and Ronny Neumann. Chemistry goes green

Catalyzing Change

01.10.2002
Environment, Organic Chemistry
New catalysts for industrial processes that produce water as their only waste product
Kenyan farmer with corn plant stunted by Striga (witchweed) in foreground and corn with seed coating technology to the right and in the background.

New Witchweed-Fighting Method, Developed by CIMMYT and a Weizmann Institute Scientist, To Become Public in July

01.07.2002
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
Corn harvests on experimental plots and in farmers’ fields in four East and Southern African countries have yielded striking results in long-term...
Prof. Gad Galili.

A Plant's Brainy Balancing Act

01.05.2002
Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Nutrition, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
Plants can't think, but a gene that affects crop nutritional values has a counterpart in the human brain

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