K'taka: Environmentalist preserves 500 endangered herbal plants, 1500 seeds in house

Plant roots are crucial in the uptake, selection, enrichment, and retention of a variety of mineral elements, which supply distant plant tissues with nutrients and sequesters excess metals. A variety of ion transporters found at roots mediate the absorption, efflux, and intracellular compartmentalization of various mineral elements to carry out such element-specific tasks.

Plant biochemist Soichi Kojima and colleagues at Tohoku University discuss their findings and future plans about how gene and protein control systems that regulate the use of nitrogen by plant roots could help develop crops that require less nitrogenous fertilizers to produce acceptable yields.

Dramatic changes to forests, and other habitats that store carbon in plants and soils, are becoming more likely in some regions across Earth, with less carbon consistently absorbed by the 'land carbon sink' provided by trees, soil and plants, according to scientists writing in Nature

According to a study published in the journal Ecological Applications,' when a sylvatic plague outbreak decimated black-tailed prairie dog populations in the Thunder Basin National Grassland in 2017, researchers saw an opportunity for a "natural experiment" to investigate the impact of the rodents' extinction on the plants and other wildlife in that area of northeast Wyoming.

According to a study published in the journal, 'New Phytologist', researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm (Germany) and the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University (USA) demonstrate the significance of two key proteins for the dynamic control of photosynthesis in a series of experiments with changing light conditions, simulating the natural interplay of light and shadow.

Arizona [US], September 7 (ANI): The unlawful killing and trafficking of animals and plants, together with the climate issue, is one of the biggest dangers to wildlife biodiversity. The illegal wildlife trade is one of the world's most valuable clandestine enterprises, despite numerous laws prohibiting it.

Minneapolis [US], July 19 (ANI): Biodiversity is a complex topic, with millions of plants and animal species spread across every biome on the planet. To bring the global challenges to biodiversity into focus, experts from all over the world must communicate across borders. How can researchers share their findings in order to develop a shared understanding of the risks and opportunities for action?

Ohio [US], June 19 (ANI): Invasive species introduced to the United States over the past century are found to be crowding out many native plants, according to a new botanical study in southwest Ohio.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 28 (ANI): Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has installed a 'smog tower' at Hudson Circle that uses nanotechnology to purify the air.

New Delhi [India], November 10 (ANI): An environmentalist and founder of an activist group, Swechha, Vimlendu Jha welcomed the 'total ban' on the sale or bursting of firecrackers by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) across the National Capital Region (NCR) till the end of November.