BLUE HILL PENINSULA — While farming and harvesting edible seaweeds like sugar kelp and dulse is on the rise in Maine, the commercial harvest of inedible rockweed has tripled over the last 20 years and ...

BLUE HILL — While farming and harvesting edible seaweeds such as sugar kelp and dulse is on the rise in Maine, the commercial harvest of inedible rockweed has tripled over the last 20 years and ...

Elizabeth "Z" Lacey, Associate Professor, Marine Science, Stockton University Douglas Zemeckis, County Agent III, Ocean, Atlantic, and Monmouth Counties, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Marine plants ...

Nov. 28, 2024 — The increased use of a chemical compound to replace TNT in explosive devices has a damaging and long lasting effect on plants, new research has ...

Plant immunity is the inherent or induced capacity of plants to withstand or ward off biological attack by pathogens. Molecules released from pathogens are recognised by plant cell surface ...

Plant stress responses describe the suite of molecular and cellular processes that are triggered by the detection by the plant of some form of stress. Stresses can be abiotic, such as drought or ...

Nov. 27, 2024 — Contrary to widespread concerns that global crop yields have stagnated in recent decades, a comprehensive study of worldwide food production finds yields have continued to grow ...

MacDoughall is harvesting Ascophyllum nodosum, also known as rockweed in many areas of the ... are more effective at capturing carbon than plants, partly due to their high photosynthesis rates.