They took leaves from a closely
related wild that plant was healthy and contained a typical mix of endophytes, blended them into a smoothie and sprayed the mixture onto the leaves of P. kaalaensis to see if beneficial microbes could be transplanted from one species to another.
Not exact matches
In 2013, von Wettberg, and colleagues from Turkey and other countries, spent two months surveying parts of Turkey and Kurdistan, near the border of Syria, searching for the two
wild plant species most closely
related to domestic chickpeas.
However, last August a team headed by
plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that
wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect -
related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control
plants without the gene.
It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety («Dwight» Glycine max) with a
related wild perennial
plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean
plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.
Transplanting
wild microbes from healthy
related plants can make a native Hawaiian
plant healthier and likelier to survive in
wild according to new research from The Amend Laboratory in the University of Hawai'i at M?noa (UHM) Botany Department and the O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program (OANRP).
«There is no proof of transmission from
wild animals and
plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain
Related Illnesses.
Does he mean that it's also found in other
related brassicas, of which there are numerous including many
wild varieties, or does it mean that it is found in other non-
related plants, non-brassicas?
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