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Australian startup Hysata, which says it has developed the world’s most efficient electrolyzer, has raised A$42.5 million ($29.4 million) in an oversubscribed Series A funding round. The money will be used to develop the company’s team and “develop a pilot manufacturing facility” for the innovative “capillary” technology, which it says will be able to deliver “the world’s lowest-cost green hydrogen” due to its superior efficiency. . In simple terms, the biggest element of the levelised cost of green hydrogen (LCOH) is the cost of renewable electricity used, so that less power is required for the electrolyzer to produce every kilogram of H 2 the lower the LCOH. Hysata says the capillary-fed electrolyzer (CFE) only requires 41.5 kWh of electricity per kg of hydrogen. The industry benchmark for highly efficient electrolyzers is 50kWh/kg. “Hysata’s electrolyzers operate at 95% system efficiency (41.5 kWh/kg), delivering a huge leap in performance and cost over older technologies, which

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Phytoplasmas are bacteria that can attack plant vascular tissues, causing various plant diseases. While most phytoplasma research begins by examining plants that show symptoms of disease, the new analysis focuses on tiny insects that carry infectious bacteria from plant to plant. By extracting and testing DNA from archives of planthopper specimens collected in natural areas, this study identified new phytoplasma strains and discovered new associations between planthoppers and phytoplasmas that are known to harm plants. Reported in the journal Biology, the study is the first to look for phytoplasma in insects from a natural area, said Illinois Natural History Survey postdoctoral researcher Valeria Trivellone, who led the study with INHS State Entomologist Christopher Dietrich. It is also the first to use multiple molecular approaches to detect and identify phytoplasma in planthoppers. The research team included Illinois Natural History postdoctoral researchers Yang

Pollination is a hallmark of flowering plants, with animal pollinators such as bees and birds sustaining the world’s food supply – not to mention our cravings for coffee, honey and macadamia nuts. But new research raises the possibility that animal-assisted pollination may have appeared in the ocean long before plants moved ashore. The study, carried out by a research group based in France and Chile, is the first to document a species of seaweed that relies on tiny marine crustaceans speckled in pollen-like spores to reproduce. Since red algae Gracilaria gracilis evolved long before land plants appeared, the researchers say their research suggests animal-assisted pollination could have occurred about 650 million years ago in the oceans once a suitable pollinator appeared. On land in flowering plants and gymnosperms that have seeds, the male reproductive cells, or gametes, fly in the form of pollen grains, which are carried by the wind, through the water, or by surprise insects, to hop

Tasmanian Biosecurity officials have stopped trying to contain the blueberry rust fungus — saying “the benefits of containment no longer outweigh the burden.” Key points: Fungal diseases cause extensive defoliation and can kill plants with severe infections Tasmania has struggled unsuccessfully to contain it Listing it as endemic means that restrictions on infected properties will be removed and farmers will have to live with, and manage The fungus that first arrived in the island nation in 2014 can cause extensive defoliation of blueberry crops and sometimes plant death. Tasmanian Biosecurity said it proved impossible to stop the spread of the fungus, which spreads via spores in the air, contaminated clothing or equipment. “The containment approach we’ve taken over the last few years is clearly not working anymore,” said chief plant protection officer Andrew Bishop. “It worked really well for the first few years, and was always meant to try and slow down the spread to allow manufactur

A subsidiary for Hyundai in the US state of Alabama has been caught using 12-year-old children to work at a factory that supplies auto parts to the Korean automaker’s assembly line. Key points: The three siblings found working in the factory were 12, 13 and 15 and did not attend school A spokesman for the Alabama Department of Labor said it would coordinate with the US Department of Labor and other agencies to investigate One former worker said there were around 50 underage workers between different factory shifts The underage staff worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, according to local police. SMART, listed by Hyundai in the company’s filing as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs made by the automaker at Montgomery, its flagship assembly plant in the US. In a statement, SMART said it follows federal, state and local laws and “denies allegations that it knowingly employs anyone who does not qualify for the job”. T

The researchers definitively linked the function of a protein-specific domain important in plant microbial biology to cancer triggers in humans, knowledge that scientists have avoided for decades. Team findings, published in natural Communication Biology, opens new avenues for the development of selective drug therapies to fight various types of cancer, such as cancers that start in the breast and stomach. ORNL scientists set out to experimentally prove what they first concluded with a computational study: that the plasminogen-apple-nematode, or PAN, domain is associated with cell proliferation that promotes tumor growth in humans and defense signaling during plant-microbial interactions in plant-bioenergy. plant. This association was first made when researchers were exploring the genomes of plants such as poplars and willows. Read also: Cancer drug that could potentially treat muscular dystrophy In the latest study, the ORNL team demonstrate

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two studies published in the journal Science by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany in collaboration with colleagues in China have discovered natural cellular molecules that drive critical plant immune responses. This compound has all the advantages of being a small messenger designed by plants to activate the main defense control center. Harnessing this insight allows scientists and plant breeders to design molecules that make plants, including many important plant species, more resistant to disease. World food production must double by 2050 to feed the additional 2 billion people living on Earth by that time. Increasing food production requires increasing yields of many of our staple crops. To do so, there needs to be strategies to ensure that we can make crops more resistant to microscopic infectious agents, while also ensuring that food product