Plants and Agriculture

Arabidopsis leaves with and without cholesterol

High Cholesterol Is Good News – in Plants

20.02.2017

Biochemistry, Nutrition, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Plants and Agriculture

The biochemical steps to making cholesterol in plants turn out to be surprisingly similar to those in animals

Tamir Klein tree group

Dr. Tamir Klein Sees the Forest and the Trees

16.01.2017

Biochemistry, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Between his lab, the greenhouses and nearby forests, Klein hopes to understand how trees adapt

Wild faba

In Search of the Wild Fava Bean

07.12.2016

Plants and Agriculture, Scientific Archaeology

Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today's fava beans

A section of a ripe tomato sample showing the distribution of sucrose (orange) in the flesh and of an antioxidant (green) in the fruit skin tissue; mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) technology was used to map the molecules

Wise Plant Analysis

30.11.2016

Plants and Agriculture, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Weizmann Institute’s WeizMass and MatchWeiz help identify plant metabolites

steak and hummus

Pay as You Eat

21.11.2016

Genetics, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture

New research on the environmental cost of beef vs legumes

wheat

On the Surface of Things: Wheat and Barley

07.07.2016

Nutrition, Evolution and Development, Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

The secrets of a protective coating are revealed

Tobacco mosaic virus

This Day in Science History: The discovery of viruses – “the filterable agents”(12/2/1892)

12.02.2015

Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Plants and Agriculture, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology

On 12/2/1892, the first evidence for the existence of viruses was presented: Dimitri Ivanovsky, a young Russian scientist, suggested before the...

3) dormancy and 4) explosive growth

The Time-Bomb Fungus

16.11.2014

Plants and Agriculture

An up-to-date report on the war raging on the surface of your fruit

Chicken vs Beef

The Real Price of Steak

21.07.2014

Environment, Plants and Agriculture

Diatom cells expressing ROS-sensitive proteins in the nucleus (green) and chlorophyll (red)

Drift against the Tide

09.04.2014

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture

Ocean plankton turn a toxic byproduct into a sophisticated stress indicator

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