Identifying long-term global plant growth trends is essential for understanding vegetation responses and the drivers of climate change.Existing studies have used AVHRR satellite products with long-term global monitoring since the 1980s, but distortion of remaining data has been continuously pointed out due to differences in performance between sensors and the effects of deviation from orbit."However, to date, no studies hav...

Crop losses due to plant diseases account for 30% of the global yearly harvest. Rice blast, which affects rice, causes food losses equivalent to what could feed 60 million people annually, making it one of the most important diseases with significant socio-economic impact.Resistant varieties and chemical fungicides have been used to control rice blasts. Still, with the increasing frequency of new pathogen and fungicide-resi...

Amid growing concerns about the impact of global warming on terrestrial ecosystems, new research published in Nature Plants led by a team from Seoul National University (Professor Youngryel Ryu’s group, with Dr. Jiangong Liu as the lead author), in collaboration with the international LEMONTREE project consortium, which includes members from China, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, presents observat...

Global warming is gradually becoming more serious, and its pace is accelerating. The terms "climate crisis" and "climate catastrophe" are now being used to describe the situation. The Earth's surface is kept warm by the absorption of solar radiation by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which trap heat. Global warming occurs when the concentration of these greenhouse gases increases excessively. The most direct way to miti...