Its striking yellow fruit provides a deadly temptation to sheep and cattle. A 2011 study on sheep showed that the plant caused emphysema, pneumonia, bleeding ulcers, brain swelling and death ...
About 75% of the world's food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does this bottleneck jeopardize our food supply if a major crop is impacted by drought ...
Family Solanum (nightshade) is generally associated with toxins, and for good reasons, as most of the plants in this family are poisonous. This includes some of everyone’s favorite staple ...
It’s a particularly prickly issue in the nightshade family, which includes important plants in the genus Solanum like the potato, the tomato and the aubergine. This is because traits that increase the ...
Invasive bugweed are spreading rapidly in Melville and the Koppies, threatening local biodiversity, however Wendy Carstens advises fighting to eradicate these alien invaders and preserving the ...
Beltsville, MD - A new study by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has demonstrated a significant improvement in biomass and yield in ...
Read the paper: Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues ... This study is a considerable step forward in plant genomics, demonstrating how such insights can be translated into tactics to improve ...