Alun Salt - Botany One (Page 77)

How does mixed mating persist, when self-pollination ensures a plant won’t reproduce?

Being a seed from self-pollination guarantees failure in Eucalyptus regnans. Yet despite this, new research shows a mixed-mating system. including selfing, is evolutionarily stable.

Alun Salt

07 Aug 2019

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Alun Salt

02 Aug 2019

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Now rice has more options to cope with flooding.

When waters rise, should a rice plant shut down and conserve energy till it can breathe again – or should it grow faster to get above the water? New research has produced rice that can do both.

Alun Salt

02 Aug 2019

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When a plant loses photosynthesis, what else does it lose?

One of the common features of plants they make their own food. But what happens inside a plant when they stop making their food and eat something else?

Alun Salt

31 Jul 2019

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How to break down cell walls in sugarcane

One way of improving the usefulness of a plant crop might come not from studying where the plant cells grow, but where they die.

Alun Salt

30 Jul 2019

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The hidden diversity of Pitcairnia lanuginosa

Pitcairnia lanuginosa might look similar wherever you find it in South America, but hidden inside are some differences that can tell a tale about its past.

Alun Salt

29 Jul 2019