Rare pictures of Rare-Earth Elements in live hyper-accumulating fern roots and shoots: silicon might play a role in detoxification
New X-raying method reveals how a fern accumulates rare-earth elements in its tissues
Juniper Kiss
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Juniper Kiss is a globe-trotting plant scientist and data-lover, Botany One Guest Editor and former writer, loves pretty plots, digi solutions, working with landowners, brambles and bananas.
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Agriculture changes plant disease dynamics in nearby wild plants
Landscape management could help combat plant viruses.
How big is that tree? Estimations are tricky but Terrestrial Laser Scanning helps!
New study uses laser scanning of urban trees for mathematical models
The shape of “baby plants” in the amaranth family show adaptations to extreme habitats
Adaptation to extreme habitats starts in the seed.
A sweet story: modern sugarcanes originate from three ancestral genomes
New study identifies hybridisation and backcrossing events to have led to the modern sugarcane cultivars.
Settling the debate: Plum ‘yews’ are in a separate family to yews
New genomic study assembled the plastid genomes of plum yews to understand their evolution.
Coffee and the Leaf Economics Spectrum: size matters
Martin and Issac quantified size-dependent variation in eight leaf traits in a single coffee genotype (Coffea arabica var. Caturra) in managed agroecosystems.
Fungal highways for P-solubilizing bacteria
New study in New Phytologist reveals that nutrient-solubilising bacteria can travel on fungi hyphae if the fungi provides a source of energy.
Living on the edge of fragmented forests: distance, insects and fungi impact plant traits
Seedling establishment is a crucial bottleneck in plant population dynamics, but seedlings don’t behave the same way fully-grown trees do.
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