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Plant and Environmental Sciences

One Plant, Three Kingdoms, Five Trips
24.06.2026

Weizmann Institute scientists decipher how a well-known psychedelic substance is created, then engineer a plant to produce several psychedelics at...

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27.10.2025

Quantifying wildlife reveals human impact – human movement is 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined; livestock biomass up 400%...

Gal Raviv
13.02.2025

A plant sanctuary established in the Weizmann Institute greenhouses holds valuable lessons for survival and helps to instill a love for plant...

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30.09.2024

A mysterious menace lurks in the oceans, threatening algal blooms. Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a new way to track the...

Peyote in bloom (Photo: Guy Yosef Keren)
15.08.2024

Scientists tackle the thorny issue of securing a sustainable source of the psychedelic for drug development

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23.06.2024

Altered glucose digested by cancer cells helps reveal tumors’ hiding places

Photo: Ben Kelmer
14.01.2024

Weizmann Institute of Science’s field experiments with wheat in the northern Negev symbolize hope and renewal after the October 7 attack – and...

Tree roots recruit beneficial bacteria during drought. Fluorescence and bright-field imaging reveals that during drought (left) a tree root is more densely colonized by two beneficial bacteria (green and red) than after irrigation (right)
12.07.2023

A new study at the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that bacteria can help trees survive water scarcity

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01.05.2023

Weizmann scientists revealed the step-by-step production of cannabinoids in a South African plant, pointing to new ways of manufacturing them for...

Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)
27.02.2023

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...

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