Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that a species of native sweat bee widespread throughout North and South America has a daily routine that makes it a promising pollinator. Because the bee can thrive in environments that have been highly modified by humans, such as cities and agricultural areas, it could become a suitable supplement...
Research team led by a scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has found that brains treated with certain drugs within a few days of an injury have a dramatically reduced risk of developing epilepsy later in life. The development of epilepsy is a major clinical complication after brain injury, and the disease can often...
By IQBAL PITTALWALA Article from Viji Santhakumar |
New research from UC Riverside identifies a protein that controls plant growth — good news for an era in which crops can get crushed by climate change. Researchers found the protein, IRK, while looking for clues to the ways plant cells divide or expand. They discovered IRK in the root cells of a plant related...
By JULES BERNSTEIN Article from J.Goff,C.R.Furlan,M.Jaimie,V.Norman |
Excess selenium from fertilizers and other natural sources can create air pollution that could lead to lung cancer, asthma, and Type 2 diabetes, according to new UC Riverside research. The UCR research team conducted previous studies in the Salton Sea area, which contains selenium-rich wetlands and soils toxic to birds and fish. The researchers’ studies...
By JULES BERNSTEIN Article From M. Sabbir Ahmed, Yumeng Cui, Alexander L. Frie, Abigail Burr,Rohan Kamath, Jin Y. Chen, Arafat Rahman, Tara M. Nordgren, Ying-Hsuan Lin,and Roya Bahreini |
A UC Riverside-led team has created a chemical to help plants hold onto water, which could stem the tide of massive annual crop losses from drought and help farmers grow food despite a changing climate. Read more Details of the team’s work on the newer, more effective anti-water-loss chemical is described in a paper published...
Julia Bailey-Serres, a UCR professor of Genetics, is leading the Plant-3D program. The program will basically train students to solve food insecurity due to climate change using biology and engineering solutions. Moreover, the program will grant students hands-on experience and prepare students in their future job positions. Read More
September 2019 - A research, published in Science , compares rice and other plants that are submerged in water and finds out they have in common 68 families of genes in response to flooding. Scientists are studying genes, submergence up-regulated families (SURFs) that are specifically resilient to flooding and to prevent food insecurity for future...
June 2019 - Mark Hoddle , extension specialist and director of the Center for Invasive Species Research at UC Riverside, finds out that lantern flies harm the environment, especially plants. The lantern flies will secrete unwanted honeydew, damage plants’ growth, and attract insects like ants. Hoddle then focuses on studying parasite wasps as a solution...
November 2018 - Sydney Glassman , an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology at UCR, indicated the importance of the microbial communities to decompose the dead animals and trees in the ecosystem. At the same time, she studied how climate change affected microbial communities. For example, moderate climate was the most...
September 2018 - Daniel Hirmas is a researcher from the UCR department of environmental science. In his research, he found out that climate change affects the formation of macroporosity Read more The increased humidity will lead to decreased macropores and form serious consequences like more surface runoff and more flash flooding. Read more
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Beautiful things can happen when plants surround themselves with the right microbes. A study on Acmispon strigosus, a plant in the pea family, showed a 13-fold growth increase in plants that partnered with a highly effective strain of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Bradyrhizobium. The ability of plants to use beneficial microbes to...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) – FarmSense, a startup co-founded by Bourns College of Engineering computer science professor Eamonn Keogh, Shailendra Singh, who received his PhD in computer science from UC Riverside, and Agenor Mafra-Neto, founder of ISCA Technologies in Riverside, was one of 30 startups selected for the Alliance for SoCal Innovation SoCal First Look...
July 2018 - Professor Wessler, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences Neil A and Rochelle A Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovation in Science Education, co-chaired the report recently released by the National Academies Press: Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030. Read online
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Spring is a busy time for bumblebee queens. After emerging from hibernation, their to-do list includes making nests, laying eggs, and keeping their larvae warm and fed. It’s physiologically demanding, and the stakes are high: the success of the colony depends on a queen’s solitary work during this time. In a...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have made an important step in understanding the molecular mechanism of huanglongbing (HLB), a destructive disease that is a serious threat to the citrus industry worldwide. HLB, also known as citrus greening disease, has devastated groves in Asia, South America, and the southern...
Trees feature prominently in global culture. Iconic trees include the source of Newton’s apple, Buddha’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the sacred Tree of Life in mythologies around the world. Trees provide security and shelter and are valuable resources for sciences, health and technology. It’s frankly...
Nitrogen pollution, largely from automobile exhaust, can reduce drinking water quality and make air difficult to breathe. “Levels of nitrogen pollution in Riverside’s atmosphere, and in the areas that surround this city, are among the highest in the country,” said UCR soil scientist Peter Homyak , who is leading the new study. “Nitrogen pollutants can...
John Chater is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside with a focus on pomegranate research. He is building on the work of his grandfather, S. John Chater, who was a maintenance worker at hospital but developed a cult following among rare fruit growers in California for developing new varieties of pomegranates. To...
MIT engineers have implanted spinach leaves with carbon nanotubes, resulting in a hybrid electronic system that they call “plant nanobionics” for detecting dangerous (and other) chemicals. Strano is the senior author of the paper describing the nanobionic plants in the Oct. 31 issue of Nature Materials. The paper’s lead authors are Min Hao Wong, an...
