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Dwarf shrubs from the Tibetan Plateau yield signals of past air moisture
How can you work out what the climate was like in the past, without having had someone take measurements? One solution is to look at tree
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Single primer enrichment technology as a tool for massive genotyping
Davide Scaglione and colleagues have paper for anyone who needs to carry a genotyping experiment with cost-efficiency and reproducibility for population genetics and genome wide association studies.
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Investigating the diet of carnivorous plants
Earlier this year we reported on how it looked like bladderworts were farming their food, as much as hunting it. A paper submitted before those came out adds to the story, by examining the ‘trophic level’ of bladderwort and butterwort prey.
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Succulents will be winners and losers in a hotter climate
How well do we know succulent plants? According to a new paper by Dr Olwen Grace of Kew Gardens, not as well as we should.
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Presenting a poster at a conference?
Worry no more. Mike Morrison has got your academic poster design.
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Beauty is in the nose of the beholder
It’s no surprise that a flower releases scent to attract a pollinator, but why would it do it hours before the pollinator is around? New research finds scent can have more than one job.
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Microplastics could pose a threat to plants
There’s been plenty of media attention on the threat plastics, especially microplastics, pose to animal life. A paper in New Phytologist suggests that there’s
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Sex on Fire and Vachellia caven
In Central Argentina grows a tree which can produce flowers with different sexual characteristics? Why? Is there an advantage to changing your sex life if you’re a plant?
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Burning States
Wildfires are on the move in North America. Not just sweeping across landscapes in a season, but also changing where they appear over the years.
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What’s Not a Nut?
‘May contain nuts’, but what is a nut? A quiz to annoy your friends with.
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Do non-native pollinators provide services to native plants in Hawaii?
A lot of Hawaii’s plants are in trouble. A new study by Clare Aslan and colleagues says over a third are threatened or endangered. Why
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Plants can show your presence at a crime scene
How empty does a room have to be to have no witnesses?