Carbon fiber may be strong and light, but it's also expensive. South African scientists have developed a cheaper and more sustainable alternative, though, in which the carbon fibers are replaced with ...

Odor collection on ribwort plantain plants after caterpillar feeding. 19 different plantain populations, whose seeds were collected from different locations around the world, were grown in a ...

Field experiments with ribwort plantain in the Jena Experiment The research team focused its investigations on ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata) because its ecological interactions have already ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - A resistant fungus which wilts banana and plantain plants and infects soil could worsen the food crisis in Venezuela, where 6.5 million people already suffer hunger, growers groups ...

RICHFIELD, Ohio — Many people treat their lawns and flower beds with weed killers, but they may be getting rid of some very beneficial plants. One of those plants is the broad leafed plantain; a ...

To farmers cultivating plantain on a large scale, getting suckers to buy is difficult because of their prohibitive cost. But farmers are now exploring a cheaper technique of multiplying suckers for ...

Pamela Medina van Berkum collects volatile organic compounds from communities and individual plants in the field at the Jena Experiment field site (https://the-jena-experiment.de/). In her experiments ...