Yoon, an associate professor of botany and plant pathology, is probing two different biochemical pathways that plants use to improve their response to stresses such as drought, severe heat and cold.

Photo of the model parasitic plant, Phtheirospermum japonicum (left), and its haustorium (right). P: parasitic plant, H: host plant. The right lower photo shows xylem connection between a host and ...

Researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology have found that parasitic plants use the plant hormone ethylene as a signal to invade host plants. Parasitic plants make an organ called a ...

Strong support for molecular cart-wheeling was provided by DFT calculations. For the case of DXE molecules, at the moment of dehalogenation the remnant ethylene molecule recoils from the surface ...

Ethylene, conveniently, can be made out of natural gas liquids, or even shale gas itself. First, a trimer molecule, containing 6 carbon atoms, is formed from ethylene.

But in all cases, the molecular machinery responsible for sensing the ethylene molecule is exactly the same. Importantly, as the current study shows, it is nearly identical in charophytes as well.

Ethylene, a ho-hum material that is the building block of the most common plastic, might have an exciting future in storing hydrogen, the hoped-for transportation fuel of the future.

Letter Published: 26 December 1936 Vibrations of the Ethylene Molecule S. BHAGAVANTAM Nature 138, 1096–1097 (1936) Cite this article ...

Ethylene, a ho-hum material that is the building block of the most common plastic, might have an exciting future in storing hydrogen, the hoped-for transportation fuel of the future.