Environment

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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