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04/25/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Plants have “lungs” and humans have influenced the way they breathe, study says

Experts from the University of Sheffield in the U.K. have revealed how plants provide air to every cell in their bodies. Furthermore, they point out that human intervention has influenced how plants breathe. The study was headed by Andrew Fleming, a professor at Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food. Their study was published in the journal Nature Communications. Plants require a […]

04/12/2020 / By Franz Walker

Plants redirect electrons to an alternative route to prevent damage caused by oxidative stress

It may not seem like it, but plants can also experience stress – oxidative stress, that is – from absorbing too much light. Now, scientists are looking into the process by which plants manage oxidative stress. Researchers from Kobe University have recently released the results of a study that looked into how plants manage oxidative stress. The study focused […]

07/08/2019 / By Tracey Watson

Glyphosate byproduct AMPA found to interfere with photosynthesis, the basis of nearly all life on planet Earth

It has been four years since the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer announced that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” In that time, there has been a lot of focus on the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Roundup, the world’s most popular weed killer. As bad as the direct effects of […]

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