Alun Salt - Botany One (Page 67)

A rare Wollemi Pine tree in a cage at Kew Gardens.

Law enforcement and ecologists will need to trade information to combat trading in endangered plants say crime researchers

Online trading is increasing the damage done by illegal trading in plant material, but researchers have suggestions to reduce this.

Alun Salt

19 Jun 2020

Growth & Development

The off-switch is not the on-switch for rhizome development in tall fescue

When drought passes the signals to restart the development of rhizomes in Festuca arundinacea are on different regulatory pathways to the signals that turned it off at the start of the drought.

Alun Salt

19 Jun 2020

Cells, Genes & Molecules

Scottish barley may have the genes to aid cultivars in marginal lands

Botanists have been examining the genomes of Scottish varieties of barley to see if they can pass its ability to manage manganese to popular cultivars.

Alun Salt

11 Jun 2020

Ecosystems

Non-native plant species climb mountains in a different way to native species

One way invasive species spread through an area is by harnessing variability in traits, but this doesn’t match observations of invasive species on the slopes of Mount Teide.

Alun Salt

05 Jun 2020