Singapore Science News API

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            "title": "SpaceX grounds Falcon 9 flights after second-stage issue",
            "description": "Feb 3 - Elon Musk's SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket over an unspecified issue that its second stage experienced after successfully deploying Starlink satellites into orbit on Monday, the company said.    After the two-stage Falcon 9 delivered 25 Starlink satellites to space in a routin",
            "content": "Feb 3 - Elon Musk's SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket over an unspecified issue that its second stage experienced after successfully deploying Starlink satellites into orbit on Monday, the company said. After the two-stage Fa... [1437 chars]",
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            "title": "Large-scale multi-omics unveils host-microbiome interactions driving root development and nitrogen acquisition",
            "description": "The rhizosphere microbiome plays a crucial role in determining plant performance and fitness. Nevertheless, regulatory mechanisms linking host genetic variation, root gene regulation and microbiome assembly—and their collective influence on plant nutritional traits—remain poorly understood. Here we generated and integrated 1,341 paired datasets, including root transcriptomes, rhizosphere bacterial 16S rRNA profiles and root ionomes, across 175 resequenced Brassica napus ecotypes grown at two contrasting field sites. We identified 203 highly heritable bacterial amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), many of which were significantly associated with root nitrogen (N) levels. Host transcriptome-wide gene expression and these microbial features together explained up to 45% of natural variation in N uptake while genome-wide association analyses revealed host loci regulating ASV abundance, many of which were under the control of eQTL hotspots linked to carbon and N metabolism. Isolate-level inoculation, whole-genome sequencing, metabolite profiling and confocal imaging demonstrated that the dominant, genetically regulated bacterial genus Sphingopyxis modulates auxin biosynthesis and promotes lateral root development to enhance N acquisition under stress. This study therefore identifies Sphingopyxis as a functionally relevant taxon with potential for microbiome-assisted breeding of nutrient-efficient crops. This study uncovers genetic links between plant roots and their microbiome in Brassica napus, identifying microbe-associated loci and a beneficial bacterium, Sphingopyxis, that promotes nitrogen uptake.",
            "content": "Plant materials and field preparation\nA panel of 300 B. napus accessions, representing global diversity, was sown in the field44. This panel consists of 187 winter, 55 semi-winter and 58 spring ecotypes, classified based on genetic information and fi... [49804 chars]",
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            "title": "Old Finds Asia’s First Jurassic Amphibian Footprint",
            "description": "The fossil discovery helps reconstruct the ecosystem of what is now Beijing, during the Middle Jurassic 160 million years ago.",
            "content": "A fossil found by a 12-year-old in Beijing has filled a major gap in Asia’s Middle Jurassic record, marking the first confirmed amphibian footprint from the period.\nThe findings were published last week in peer-reviewed journal “Ichnos” after Ni Jing... [1812 chars]",
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