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𝓔𝓲𝓪𝓻 𝒜𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓂𝓈𝓀𝒾-𝒦𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓃𝒷𝑒𝓇𝑔 ☮️Jun 30, 2025

Do you have some extra money you want to use for a good cause? Please donate for food aid packages going to Palestinian communities facing forced expulsion and settler violence in the West Bank 📦=💖

I know the coordinators and have participated several times in packaging, so I can vouch for this personally. The food goes where it’s needed, and only vegan food is purchased¹ with the collected money 🌱

Boosts are very welcome, ty 🙂

https://causematch.com/emergencyaidwestbank

¹ In the past we have packaged in some non-vegan food donated by other organisations, but this is orthogonal to the money collected through the above link, which will be used for buying only vegan food.

#Palestine #aid #food #donation #antifascism #existence_is_resistance #food_security

Emergency Aid to the West Bank

Emergency Aid For the West Bank - Standing in Solidarity with Palestinian Communities facing Forced Expulsion and Settler Violence

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CellBioNews Mar 28, 2025

Discovery reveals key #molecular event that boosts #wheat's defense against devastating #disease.

#immune_response #stem_rust #fungus #tandem_kinase #NLR #crop #food_security

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-discovery-reveals-key-molecular-event.html

Discovery reveals key molecular event that boosts wheat's defense against devastating disease

A new study published in Science by a team of scientists across five continents led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Associate Professor Brande Wulff reports a previously unknown molecular event that initiates the immune response to a major wheat disease. The findings provide strategies to engineer wheat that has stronger immunity against infection.

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CellBioNews Mar 28, 2025

Discovery of compounds that delay #flowering could boost #crop yields.

#food_security #development #devernalizers #FLOWERING_LOCUS_C_gene #signalling #epigenetic #Arabidopsis

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-discovery-compounds-delay-boost-crop.html

Discovery of compounds that delay flowering could boost crop yields

In an era where climate change threatens food security, scientists worldwide are searching for reliable ways to improve crop production. Extreme weather and shifting seasonal patterns can disrupt traditional agricultural cycles, making technologies that regulate the timing of plant growth invaluable for farmers worldwide.

Phys.org

CellBioNews Mar 27, 2025

#Reverse_genetics system enhances #vaccine development for African #swine fever #virus.

#ASFV #livestock #food_security

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-reverse-genetics-vaccine-african-swine.html

Reverse genetics system enhances vaccine development for African swine fever virus

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have developed a reverse genetics system for African swine fever virus (ASFV). This new system will aid researchers in developing vaccines and in studying the pathogenesis and biology of ASFV, a highly contagious, deadly viral disease affecting domesticated and wild pigs, especially prevalent in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.

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CellBioNews Mar 27, 2025

Unlocking #rice's yield potential: Trio of #genes holds the key, study shows.

#agriculture #food_security #development #OsMED23, #OsJMJ703 #OsWOX3A #histone_demethylase #transcription_factor

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-rice-yield-potential-trio-genes.html

Unlocking rice's yield potential: Trio of genes holds the key, study shows

A research team led by Dr. Li Yunhai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered a novel genetic mechanism that controls grain size and yield in rice, offering promising strategies to enhance global food production.

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CellBioNews Mar 19, 2025

Protecting #crops: #RNA-based substances open up new avenue to combat a widespread #plant #virus.

#mosaic_virus #agriculture #food_security #aphids #vectors #siRNA #edsRNA

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-crops-rna-based-substances-avenue.html

Protecting crops: RNA-based substances open up new avenue to combat a widespread plant virus

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU).

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CellBioNews Mar 12, 2025

#Microplastics may threaten global #food supply by disrupting #photosynthesis.

#agriculture #plants #food_security

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-microplastics-threaten-global-food-disrupting.html

Microplastics may threaten global food supply by disrupting photosynthesis

A team of environmental researchers, Earth scientists and pollution specialists at Nanjing University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and colleagues from Germany and the U.S. has found evidence that microplastics have a negative impact on photosynthesis in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.

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CellBioNews Mar 12, 2025

Scientists find structural variation that boosts grain number in sorghum

#intrachromosomal_inversion #DG1_promoter #ORF1 #agriculture #food_security

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-scientists-variation-boosts-grain-sorghum.html

Scientists find structural variation that boosts grain number in sorghum

Chinese scientists have uncovered two major genes responsible for sorghum's double-grain spikelet that dramatically enhance grain number and crop yield. A substantial 35.7-kilobase intrachromosomal inversion at the DG1 (Double-Grain 1) promoter drives the upregulation of DG1 expression, leading to the development of double-grain spikelets that remarkably increase sorghum grain number while illustrating the critical role of genomic structural variation in plant evolution.

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CellBioNews Mar 11, 2025

#Nitrogen for nothing and your #protein for free.

#nitrogen_fixation #nitrogenase #bacteria #mightymicrobes #food_security #bioengineering #DNA #mitochondria #plants #agriculture

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nitrogen-protein-free.html

Nitrogen for nothing and your protein for free

More than half of the protein within our body can be directly traced to a process invented more than 100 years ago by two German chemists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch. The Haber-Bosch process artificially fixes nitrogen by breaking the inert triple bond of nitrogen gas into ammonia fertilizer.

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CellBioNews Mar 7, 2025

How #plants control partnerships with #fungi: Study finds #stress #hormones influence #symbiosis

#soil #microbiome #Arbuscular_mycorrhiza #ethylene #SMAX1 #gene_regulation #agriculture #food_security

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-partnerships-fungi-stress-hormones-symbiosis.html

How plants control partnerships with fungi: Study finds stress hormones influence symbiosis

How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi? The team of Prof. Dr. Caroline Gutjahr, director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, is shedding light on the underground partnership of plants.

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