Since 2011, a mysterious illness known as Yellow Canopy Syndrome, or YCS, has afflicted Australian sugarcane. The condition causes the mid-canopy leaves of otherwise healthy plants to rapidly turn yellow to a degree that the plant’s sugar yield can decrease ...
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from HPC Wire by Makeda Easter, Sept. 21 — Undergraduate biology labs are designed to prepare students for real-life biology work. These labs usually involve tried and true exercises like animal dissections, investigating enzymes, and microscope work.While traditional lab work ...
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Public Release: 3-Feb-2015 UC Davis researchers use iPlant, TACC to examine stress adaptation University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center – Plant biologist Julin Maloof met fellow researcher Neelima Sinha while beginning his career at the University of California, ...
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