When many people think of watermelon, they likely think of Citrullus lanatus, the cultivated watermelon with sweet, juicy red fruit enjoyed around the world as a dessert.
Harvesting Genes to Improve Watermelons
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Live-In Bacteria Protect Plants Against Infections
Micro-organisms living inside plant roots team up to boost the plant’s growth and tolerance to stress.
A Clue to Biodiversity?
Scientists have found that some passion vine butterflies (Heliconius) share similar color patterns that help ward off predators because they actually share parts of their DNA as a result of hybridization somewhere in their ancestry.
Four Decades of Data Sounds Early Warning on Lake George
Although concentrations of chemicals and pollutants like salt and nutrients have increased in the deep waters of Lake George, they’re still too low to harm the ecosystem at those depths, according to an analysis of nearly 40 years of data published today in Limnology and Oceanography.
NASA Satellite Imagery Finds Rebekah Now Post-Tropical
NASA’s Terra Satellite provided a visible image of Post-Tropical Cyclone Rebekah as it continued moving in an easterly direction through the North Atlantic Ocean.
Rice Yields Plummet and Arsenic Rises in Future Climate-Soil Scenarios
Rice is the largest global staple crop, consumed by more than half the world’s population – but new experiments from Stanford University suggest that with climate change, production in major rice-growing regions with endemic soil arsenic will undergo a dramatic decline and jeopardize critical food supplies.
