Category: Basic Science
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Posted on February 3, 2017
Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center – Audio
/RSS FeedWisconsin Crop Innovation Center Shawn Kaeppler, Professor Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences smkaeppl@facstaff.wisc.edu (608) 262-9571 FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://cropinnovation.cals.wisc.edu/ 3:06 […]
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Posted on November 22, 2016
UW–Madison researchers study plant aging, gain insights into crop yields
New insights into the mechanism behind how plants age may help scientists better understand crop yields, nutrient allocation, and even the timing and duration of […]
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Posted on November 18, 2016
Soybean cyst nematode resistance – Audio
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Soybean cyst nematodes resistance Andrew Bent, Professor Department of Plant Pathology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences afbent@wisc.edu 608-265-3034 Total Time – 2:56 0:15 […]
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Posted on October 5, 2016
Enormous rodents on Gough Island may hold key to solving genetic mystery
Two thousand miles east of the coast of Argentina, Gough Island rises out of the Atlantic Ocean in an awesome display of ancient volcanic activity. […]
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Posted on September 30, 2016
Continuing a legacy: Vitamin D research in the 21st century
The legacy of vitamin D research in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison runs deep — almost as deep as the vitamin’s […]
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Posted on September 26, 2016
Yeast knockouts peel back secrets of cell protein function
Proteins are the hammers and tongs of life, with fundamental roles in most of what happens in biology. But biologists still don’t know what thousands […]
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Posted on September 16, 2016
How rattlesnakes got, and lost, their venom
Millions of years ago, as the snake family tree grew new branches, the ancestor of modern rattlesnakes was endowed with a genetic arsenal of toxic […]
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Posted on August 25, 2016
Symmetry crucial for building key biomaterial collagen in the lab
Collagen makes up the cartilage in our knee joints, the vessels that transport our blood, and is a crucial component in our bones. It is […]
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Posted on August 18, 2016
Fruit flies help explain differences between males and females
Vive la difference! Trust the French to compose poetry from banality. And yet the biological explanation for the many physical differences between males and females […]
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Posted on August 15, 2016
Mitochondrial maps reveal new connections to poorly understood diseases
Mitochondria are the engines that drive cellular life, but these complex machines are vulnerable to a wide range of breakdowns, and hundreds of their component […]
