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How do plant hybrids aid invasions?

Fi Gennu - 0
There’s a common belief that hybridization of plants can aid invasions through adaptive introgression. This is where a hybrid breeds with one...
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Honeybees much less effective than native pollinators for Lepechinia floribunda

Fi Gennu - 0
It's not just a matter of number of visits, a pollinator has to arrive at the right time too.
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Excessive Nibbling May Interfere With Reproduction for the Noble Rhubarb

Fi Gennu - 1
Nobile rhubarb reproduces in one final burst at the end of it's life, but yaks might be bring that life to an end early.
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Mutualistic relationship between mangrove plants and diazotrophs

Fi Gennu - 0
Trees need nitrogen. When they shed leaves with all the nitrogen in them it would be a big loss, were it not...
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Continuous variation in herkogamy in Mediterranean honeysuckle populations

William Salter - 0
Herkogamy, the spatial separation of sex organs in hermaphroditic plants, is thought to have evolved to reduce self-pollination and inbreeding within a...
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Even for specialists, floral morphology is influenced by both pollinators and climate

Erin Zimmerman - 0
Climate can indirectly affect floral morphology within a species by affecting what pollinators will visit those flowers across its range.
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Control of root-knot nematode infection by rhizobacteria in tomato plants

William Salter - 0
Plants can encourage rhizobacteria to help fight of rot-knot nematodes.
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Daphnia are bite-size for the carnivorous waterwheel plant

Dale Maylea - 0
The Venus Fly Trap is not the only carnivorous plant with a snap-trap. Aldrovanda vesiculosa, the waterwheel plant, has one too but it's not always been clear how it works.
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Plants can prepare soils to give other plants protection against pests

Alun Salt - 0
It's known that microbes in the soil can help plants fight pests. Now research published in New Phytologist shows that plants can be used to create anti-pest microbiomes.
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Potato-associated bacteria can act as bodyguards

Dale Maylea - 1
Bacteria found with potatoes can help protect their hosts against late blight. The aid comes from their volatile emissions.
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How does partnership work for a lichen in the Antarctic?

Alun Salt - 1
Lichens are partnerships between algae and fungi. In the Antarctic Lichens offer algae shelter against the cold, but also an uncertain future.
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Can insights from invasion ecology promote benefits from root mutualisms in plant production?

William Salter - 0
Ramoneda et al. propose specific experimental approaches to utilize the wild ancestors of crops to determine whether crop domestication compromised the benefits derived from root microbial symbioses or not.
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Phylogeny, age and adaptive evolution of genus Allium

Cells, Genes & Molecules Alex Assiry - 0
The genus Allium L., one of the largest monocotyledonous genera and one that includes many economically important crops with nutritional and medicinal...
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Plants from different climates can react to drought in similar ways

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How do plants react when circumstances change? One method can be to evolve a local adaptation. Another can be be phenotypic plasticity,...
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Not All Pine Needles Are Identical: Lower Crown Loss in Pinus radiata

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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?

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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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