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A Little Dusty – but Alive

14.03.2023
Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
​A Weizmann Institute study shows that some bacteria that hitch a long-distance ride on desert dust particles may touch down alive and kicking
Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)

The Weight of Responsibility: Biomass of Livestock Dwarfs That of Wild Mammals

27.02.2023
Nutrition, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
Wild land mammals weigh less than 10 percent of the combined weight of humans and are outweighed by cattle and other domesticated mammals by a factor...
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Answering a Question That Has Bugged Ecologists for Decades

03.02.2023
Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
Researchers have produced the first global estimate of the combined weight of all land insects and related arthropods 
An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at a hitherto unseen rate

Building Better Enzymes – by Breaking Them Down

12.01.2023
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biochemistry, Evolution and Development, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology
In a major step toward greener industry, Weizmann Institute scientists create a computational method for generating enzymes with unprecedented...
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Bacteria and Plants Fight Alike

01.12.2021
Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Evolution and Development, Genetics, Environment, Plants and Agriculture
A bacterial mechanism for sensing infection may help boost plant defenses
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GORKY Protein Turns Bitter Tomatoes Sweet

29.04.2021
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
A huge new database helps reveal tomato riddles and may facilitate the breeding of delicious, disease-resistant tomatoes
Plant Microbiome Project Connects Students to Real-Time Research

Plant Microbiome Project Connects Students to Real-Time Research

31.12.2020
Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Science Teaching
High school students are out in the field, expanding our knowledge of an invisible ecosystem
Using a Wrench to Hammer Nails

Using a Wrench to Hammer Nails

08.09.2020
Systems Biology, Plants and Agriculture
A step in the biochemical pathway for soapy plant compounds comes from the “wrong” set of tools 
Orenia fungi

Can't See the Fungi for the Trees: The Forest's Hidden Helpers

30.06.2020
Environment, Plants and Agriculture
Underground fungal networks transfer carbon between neighboring trees, even of different species
Grove of trees

In the Grove

25.06.2020
Environment, Plants and Agriculture
Dr. Rafat Qubaja's work on campus trees shows even small groves can help mitigate climate change

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Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)
27.02.2023
The Weight of Responsibility: Biomass of Livestock Dwarfs That of Wild Mammals
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