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Exploit Plants' Ability To Tell The Time To Make Food Production More Sustainable, Say Scientists Cambridge plant scientists say circadian clock genes, which enable plants to measure daily and seasonal rhythms, should be targeted in agriculture and crop breeding for higher yields and more sustainable farming. Like humans, plants have an ‘internal clock’ that monitors the rhythms of their environment. The authors of a study published today say that now the genetic basis of this circadian system is well understood and there are improved genetic tools to modify it, the clock should be exploi...

Date Time Exploit plants’ ability to tell time to make food production more sustainable, say scientists Cambridge plant scientists say circadian clock genes, which enable plants to measure daily and seasonal rhythms, should be targeted in agriculture and crop breeding for higher yields and more sustainable farming. Plants grow much better when their internal clock is matched to the environment they grow in. Alex Webb Like humans, plants have an ‘internal clock’ that monitors the rhythms of their environment. The authors of a study published today say that now t...

 E-Mail Cambridge plant scientists say circadian clock genes, which enable plants to measure daily and seasonal rhythms, should be targeted in agriculture and crop breeding for higher yields and more sustainable farming. Like humans, plants have an 'internal clock' that monitors the rhythms of their environment. The authors of a study published today say that now the genetic basis of this circadian system is well understood and there are improved genetic tools to modify it, the clock should be exploited in agriculture - a process they describe as 'chronoculture' - to contribute to global foo...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Molecular neurochemist Darrell Mousseau is a professor in USask's Department of Psychiatry and head of the Cell Signalling Laboratory. view more  Credit: University of Saskatchewan Findings from a new study on Alzheimer's disease (AD), led by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), could eventually help clinicians identify people at highest risk for developing the irreversible, progressive brain disorder and pave the way for treatments that slow or prevent its onset. The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports in early January, has demons...