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Mitochondria and stress signalling

Fi Gennu - 0
How does a plant sense stress and pass those signals around its body? Corentin Dourmap and colleagues have reviewed the role of...
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Aluminium-silicon interactions in higher plants: a brief personal history

Martin Hodson - 0
How aluminium, silicon and two researchers are connected.
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The Chemical Tools of Carnivorous Plants

Fi Gennu - 0
Carnivorous plants need to manufacture a variety of specialised chemicals to lure, trap and digest prey.
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Delayed aluminium exclusion in signal grass is energy-dependent

Erin Zimmerman - 0
The mechanism requires a day or two from exposure to exclude the metal from the intracellular compartment.
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Expression of the sesame MYB transcription factor SiMYB305 boosts tolerance to drought and salt stress in Arabidopsis

William Salter - 0
Improving crop tolerance to environmental stresses is of paramount importance to global food security. To protect themselves from abiotic stress, plants translate...
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The SAUR41 subfamily of genes is involved in cell expansion and salt tolerance

Erin Zimmerman - 0
The SAUR41 genes are ABA inducible and active during seedling establishment.
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Rice chloroplasts become more spherical under salt stress

Erin Zimmerman - 0
Though the cause isn’t clear, the chloroplasts may be reacting to carbon dioxide or light levels.
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Decoding Soybean Nodulation

Rachel Shekar - 0
A new framework aids in predicting gene regulatory networks associated with soybean nodule formation.
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Repetitive DNA is not behind genome size variation in Anacyclus

Erin Zimmerman - 0
Plant genome size (GS) varies widely – by as much as a factor of 2500 in land plants alone. Outside of genome...
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Does Viagra really help preserve flowers?

Alun Salt - 1
It is said that sildenafil citrate can help preserve flowers. Here's an experiment that you could do at home, but probably shouldn't, to find out.
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Decrypting the tubby-like protein gene family in cassava

William Salter - 0
Dong et al. identify and characterise the cassava TLP gene family, MeTLP, at the genomic level.
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Gene copy number is associated with phytochemistry in Cannabis sativa

William Salter - 0
THCA and CBDA were thought to have a simple mode of inheritance; however, a recent study by Vergara et al. describes that in fact multiple gene copies are involved in their production.
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Not All Pine Needles Are Identical: Lower Crown Loss in Pinus radiata

Growth & Development Fi Gennu - 0
When fungal infection comes to Pinus radiata, it can run through the bottom of the crown of the tree, removing its leaves....
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How do you get more DNA down a pollen tube?

Cells, Genes & Molecules Alex Assiry - 0
A common event for flowering plants is whole genome duplication (WGD), where a plant gets extra chromosomes. It’s often studied in mature...
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Simulating the effects of local adaptation and life history on the ability of plants to track climate shifts

Computational Models William Salter - 0
Local adaptation is common but not universal in plants and results from the interplay of gene flow with natural selection. Gene flow...
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What creates Gentiana diversity in mountains?

Taxonomy & Evolution Fi Gennu - 0
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is extremely rich in species, but why? One recent explanation is the mountain‐geobiodiversity hypothesis (MGH) by Mosbrugger et...
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