Geranium flowers are one of the most popular floriculture crops in the world. In the United States, geraniums had a wholesale value of ≈80.7 million dollars in 2020. The majority of these plants come from vegetative ...

The continual emergence of antibiotic resistant microbes is of great concern in the medical community. Many pathogenic bacteria previously susceptible to common antibiotic treatments have evolved resistance, resulting in ...

In freshwater lakes, mosses are distributed in deeper waters than any other form of plant life. Deep-water mosses have been documented from lakes around the world with the earliest descriptions being reported from lakes ...

This project aims to examine the effects of the environmental estrogen, bisphenol A (BPA), on inflammatory pathways in human breast cancer cells. Environmental estrogens are found in a wide variety of plastics, food, and ...

Hybridization is an important evolutionary and biological phenomenon, especially in plants, which hybridize more frequently than animals and fungi. Plant species that hybridize often exhibit additivity, both morphologically ...

Climate change is a serious ongoing problem and understanding how plant species respond to these changes is crucial for planning agricultural and conservation efforts. Specific leaf area (SLA), a proxy for investment and ...

A diagnostic odyssey is the process of determining a correct medical diagnosis after symptom onset or disease recognition. Unfortunately, the path to diagnosis is frequently not linear and often involves set-backs, changes ...

Climate change is an ongoing problem that is predicted to continue impacting ecosystems around the world. It is important to understand how plants will respond to novel climatic conditions, either by migration (moving to ...

Ecological communities are subsets of larger-scale species pools. Community assembly may be due to ecological drift, resulting in communities with a random set of species and functional traits. However, ecological selection ...

Lake Superior and the St. Louis River Estuary (SLRE) are important ecological and economical resources for the Upper Midwest as waterways, fisheries, and recreation destinations—however, these essential waterbodies may be ...