During arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis AM fungi form tree-shaped structures called arbuscules in root cortex cells of host plants. Arbuscules ...

Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content

We examined drought tolerance of pedunculate oak from German populations. Our results show that trees from drier regions have greater drought tolerance, suggesting that they actively adapt to their l...

In Bonn sind ältere Menschen in kleinere Wohnungen gezogen – ihre größeren Wohnungen bieten nun Familien mit Kindern mehr Platz. Wie kam das? Was ist die Idee dahinter? Und wieso sind die Menschen ger...

Tropical forests substantially influence the terrestrial carbon sink. Their contributions to the forest carbon sink may increase due to the stimulation of photosynthesis by rising atmospheric CO2 (C...

On February 15, 2025, The Morton Arboretum hosted a lecture in honor of the release of Dr. Andrew Hipp's book Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the…

This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...

Unter dem Motto „Gemeinsam für Demokratie – Nie wieder ist jetzt“ fand am Sonntag, 9. Februar, eine Kundgebung statt, die sich gegen den Rechtsruck in Deutschland aussprach.

Ingenieure, Informatiker, Chemiker und Biologen kreieren künstliche biologische Systeme. Die synthetische Biologie verändert die Zukunft und definiert die Grenzen der Wissenschaft neu.

In a tomato canopy, leaves in the upper layers respond faster to fluctuating light, but dynamic photosynthesis across all leaf layers can accurately be cap

Genetic diversity is critical for adaptation in response to changing environments and provides a valuable metric for predicting species’ extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Na...

A language model predicts the effects of genetic variants in the human genome.