Title: Growth, Photosynthetic Performance, and Water Relations of Weeds under Salt Stress Journal: ACS Agricultural Science and Technology Authors: Jesley Nogueira Bandeira, Lyandra Maria de Oliveira, Larissa Raquel Fagundes Costa Bezerra, Ariana Carvalho Pinto, Ruana Karoline Viana Pereira, Valéria Maria Pedroso de Moraes, María Carolina Ramírez…
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Fungi use a specific chemical group to hijack the immune system of their plant prey
Scientists create a variety of chemical compounds and a new leaf test to investigate how the A. alternata fungi infects only the Asian pear.
Chemists figure out how the grass pea makes its BOS neurotoxin
One of the most abundant South Asian and Sub-Saharan African legumes is the hardy, nutritional grass pea. However, the vegetable naturally produces a paralyzing neurotoxin, and the exact mechanism has long eluded scientists – until now.
Going to Flavortown: Understanding the terpene content of cannabis
How can using computational and biochemical techniques help us understand the different flavors of cannabis? This paper explores identifying terpenes that make each cannabis strain unique.
Chemistry, archaeology and the ergot fungi: solving the mystery of the past
During thousands of years of burial, cereals from ancient artifacts are degraded and consumed, but ergot fungi produce a fingerprint of lipids that we can use to trace them.





