Heat-triggered phospholipid flipping stabilizes plasma membrane fluidity - Nature

In rice, the P4-ATPase complex OsALA5–OsALIS2 rapidly stabilizes membrane fluidity in response to high temperature by flipping saturated phosphatidylcholines to the cytosolic leaflet of the plasma mem...

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Integrated policies could raise China’s soybean self-sufficiency and ease global land-use pressure - Nature Food

Soybeans are central to global food security, but rising demand for animal-sourced foods has made China highly dependent on imports, creating environmental spillover through deforestation and land-use...

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Modeling mitigation and adaptation co-benefits in rice systems in Bangladesh

Modeling mitigation and adaptation co-benefits in rice systems in Bangladesh, Rosenzweig, Cynthia, Valdivia, Roberto O, McDermid, Sonali, Li, Tao, Contreras, Erik Mencos, Hussain, Sk Ghulam, Alam, Md Rajibul, Chaki, Apurbo K, Naher, Umme A, Rashid, Md Bazlur, Sapkota, Tek B, Kadam, Sanketa, Kozlowski, Natalie, Krupnik, Timothy J

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Measurements and distinctions, from urban to rural - Nature Cities

Defining cities and measuring what is urban shapes knowledge across fields. But delineations from what is rural and boundaries at the edges of cities or within them are not always harmonized across co...

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Early maturation of host antimicrobial peptide defences is associated with host–pathogen coexistence - Nature Chemical Biology

Host antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a frontline defense against infection. Now, it has been shown that maturation of AMP repertoires early in life can predict stable host coexistence with a highly ...

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Food systems transformation would reshape global agriculture - Nature

Scenario simulations using global economic models show that by 2050 the transformation of food systems towards healthy diets, improved productivity and halving of food waste result in a restructu...

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Conserved and divergent gene regulatory networks for crop drought resistance - Nature Communications

Deng et al. leverage AI and large-scale transcriptome data to map drought-response gene networks, uncovering conserved and lineage-specific regulatory patterns, and revealing that drought resistance i...

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Three decades of continuous warming in temperate forests destabilizes persistent forms of soil organic matter

Rising temperatures have altered the balance of soil carbon stored versus respired in forest ecosystems worldwide. Yet, the molecular-level mechanisms…

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Positive tipping points for nature - Nature Sustainability

Enacting the social and environmental change needed to address the most pressing sustainability challenges can prove unwieldy. However, identifying positive tipping points that accelerate positive fee...

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Soil Carbon Saturation: What Do We Really Know?

Managing soils to increase organic carbon presents a potential opportunity to mitigate and adapt to global change challenges. However, soils differ widely in their biophysical limits for carbon accum....

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Which ‘AI scientist’ suits your lab? A guide for the perplexed

General purpose AI tools for science, such as Claude Science, promise to accelerate research. But which is right for you?

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Why Europe’s solar rollout must account for the solar rebound effect - Nature Energy

When households install rooftop solar panels, they often increase their electricity consumption due to the perception of ‘free’ energy, a phenomenon known as the solar rebound effect. Energy scenarios...

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Evapotranspiration declines prolonged by deforestation and fire in South American biomes - Nature Geoscience

Human-driven disturbances intensify and prolong evapotranspiration declines across South American ecosystems, disrupting the water balance and threatening ecological resilience, according to hydrologi...

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Fertilizer and soil health for sustained crop production in sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and conceptual framework - npj Sustainable Agriculture

npj Sustainable Agriculture - Fertilizer and soil health for sustained crop production in sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and conceptual framework

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Optimized R2 retroelement complexes for DNA insertion into plant genomes - Nature Biotechnology

R2 retrotransposons are used to integrate DNA into plant and crop 25S ribosomal DNA sites.

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Efficient site-specific gene addition using R2 retrotransposons in tobacco and rice - Nature Biotechnology

Retrotransposons are applied in plants for safe-harbor transgene integration.

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Oil crop supply chains drive rising global biodiversity loss and outsource impacts to the tropics - Nature Food

Spatial assessments reveal that oil crop expansion, particularly in tropical regions, threaten global biodiversity. Hotspots of production and consumption are identified, showing that consumption-side...

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Inequality in human development amplifies climate-related disaster risk - Nature Communications

A global analysis of over 7,000 climate-related disasters shows that human development is a stronger determinant of local disaster impacts than hazard intensity, and that inequality in human developme...

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Agricultural soil microbiomes are structurally and functionally more resistant to warming than adjacent natural ecosystems - Nature Food

Using warming microcosms across 100 paired sites, a global meta-analysis and microbiome manipulation experiments, this study shows that agricultural microbiomes confer higher compositional and multifu...

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Integrated bundled measures could halve reactive nitrogen losses and reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in global livestock systems - Nature Food

A meta-analysis of ~3,000 empirical observations shows that systemic shifts in manure management and technology integration can reduce reactive nitrogen and carbon dioxide emissions from global livest...

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Amazon deforestation reduces precipitation and soybean yields across Southern Brazil | PNAS

Rapid agricultural expansion has driven forest loss worldwide. Deforestation reduces evaporation, potentially decreasing precipitation and crop yie...

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Crop–climate models need more realistic representations of irrigation under warming - Nature Water

Crop models increasingly project that irrigation can offset agricultural losses from climate change, informing major adaptation investments worldwide. Yet these models may systematically overestimate ...

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A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation - Nature

The Small Auxin Up RNA (SAUR) protein ZmSAUR72 in maize (Zea mays) promotes silk growth via regulation of H+-ATPase activity, and is a key determinant of the anthesis-silking interval and thus resilie...

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Genomic and genetic dissection of drought tolerance in a resilient wheat germplasm JIN50 - Nature Genetics

A de novo genome assembly of drought-resistant wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotype JIN50 and genomic analyses across other wheat germplasms identify structural variations contributing to drought res...

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Agri-environmental policies have reduced cropland degradation globally - Nature Food

Evidence on the effectiveness of national policies against cropland degradation is limited. Using global satellite data from 2001 to 2019, this study addresses this gap and reveals which country chara...

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