Symbiotic fungi on the roots of bean plants can act as an underground signaling network, transmitting early warnings of impending aphid attacks.
Symbiotic fungi on the roots of bean plants can act as an underground signaling network, transmitting early warnings of impending aphid attacks.
Researchers track DNA modifications and gene expression in stem cells as they differentiate.
A virus that infects a crop-killing fungus can spread freely, opening the possibility of its use as a fungicide.
Today’s tulip trees carry similar mitochondrial DNA as those that grew in the time of the dinosaurs.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
Leopold, The Drunken Botanist, Beautiful Whale, and Between Man and Beast
Microarrays help keep induced pluripotent stem cell lines in check, from start to finish.
Flies turning blue help researchers link the deterioration of the intestinal barrier to age-related death.
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.