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A close-up view of Cardmine hirsuta’s flight jacket

Fi Gennu - 0
Being rooted, plants have very little opportunity to travel. They can as pollen to find a mate, and also as seeds. In...
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Leaf trichomes may avoid water stress in part by impeding gall formation

Erin Zimmerman - 0
Trichomes seem to help prevent the larger gall types that lead to greater water loss.
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Botanists explore how mint makes a home for ants and mites

Erin Zimmerman - 0
Domatia in a member of the mint family are caused by cell proliferation, not leaf rolling
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Iberian saxifrage side-steps the grim reaper to extend its lifespan

Fi Gennu - 0
Saxifrage can grow multiple heads in stressed conditions, allowing more attempts at flowering.
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Dimorphism in cleistogamous flowers in Portulaca oleracea

Fi Gennu - 0
A trade-off between outcrossing and self-pollination is due to an interplay between genes and environment.
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Root flavonoids are related to enhanced AMF colonization of an invasive tree

William Salter - 0
Pei et al. investigated AMF colonization in populations of the Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera).
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Using genetic analyses to understand population structure and genet assignment of a clonal forest-floor herb

William Salter - 0
Tsujimoto et al. investigated how ramets belonging to different genets were distributed in a natural population of Carrdamine leucantha in Hokkaido, Japan.
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Botanists find out who’s the daddy

Fi Gennu - 0
Growing a fruit is only one way of passing your genes on to the next generation if you're a plant. You could...
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Venus flytraps meet post-capture energy needs with cyclic electron transport

Erin Zimmerman - 0
A switch from linear to cyclic electron transport provides the extra boost needed until energy can be taken up from the insect itself.
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Are males and females produced in equal proportions in the sexually cryptic coco de mer?

William Salter - 0
Morgan et al. explores sex ratios in populations of Lodoicea maldivica in the Seychelles.
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Auxin redistribution modifies maize root proliferation

Fi Gennu - 0
We know that maize roots chase after phosphorus, but how? Xin Wang and colleagues have been investigating what purpose the hormone auxin...
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Plant economics spectrum theory holds true within ferns

Fi Gennu - 0
Plants usually have limited resources in one way or another. There is only so much nutrient in the soil. How best to...
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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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Modelling Three-Dimensional Leaf Shape Variation

Computational Models Rachel Shekar - 0
L-Cucumber’s leaf prototype mimics leaf shape of stressed plants.
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How does variation in traits of Tunisian oak seeds affect survival?

Ecosystems Fi Gennu - 0
Oaks are the dominant species of tree in many Mediterranean forests. However, the climate of the Mediterranean basin is predicted to change...
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How Important Is Leaf Realism in Functional-Structural Plant Modelling?

Computational Models Alex Assiry - 0
Making a realistic plant in a computer model is possible, but is it necessary. All the computations generating the plant slow down...
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