Ecosystems
‘Out of Iberia’: How Bristol rock cress got to where it is today
Is a population of rare cress found near Bristol, UK, a remnant of an ice age population, or is it part of a wider European population that survived in refugia somewhere?
Ecosystems
‘Two households, both alike …’? How differences between sexes varies with time in flowering plants
‘Two households, both alike in dignity’ is famously the opening line of Romeo & Juliet. How alike houses Montague and Capulet actually are is debatable, but
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Bloody plants! How soybean uses haemoglobins to obtain nitrogen
Excess nitrogen significantly accelerated nodule senescence and the production of green leghaemoglobin in nodules.
Growth & Development
Job-sharing by the barley cuticle
In addition to preventing water loss, plant cuticles must also regulate nutrient loss, leaching. The eceriferum mutants in Hordeum vulgare (barley) potentially influence these functions by altering epicuticular wax structure and composition.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
How is flower diversity produced? Insights from Asarum
The core Heterotropa group was divided into nine subclades, each of which had a narrow geographic distribution.
Close Encounters
An acceptable elitism? Getting the best out of nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Marcela Mendoza-Suárez and colleagues have a new tool to turbocharge legumes.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Do plants use ‘expanding beams’ to build their cell walls?
Beams of homogalacturonan in plant cells could be creating peculiar the shapes of pavement cells.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Fields of yellow: getting the nutrient balance right in oilseed rape
How Brassica napus takes up phosphorus can also change how it takes up other nutrients.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Balancing the battle: how oak trees defend against new pathogens
Population genetics may decide if oak can fight off infections it has never seen before.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Can you find genetic echoes of an ancient ancestor in hornworts?
The genes hornworts share with other living plants may tell us something about their ancient common ancestor.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Plants have two ways of giving directions to cell wall builders
When getting cellulose to the cell wall, plant cells don’t rely on just one set of directions.