Computational Models
Is there a yield cost for limiting water loss during the hot hours of the day in wheat?
Evaluating how limited transpiration at high evaporative demand affect grain yield across Australia using computer models.
Ecosystems
A new system for simultaneous measurement of photosynthesis and solar-induced fluorescence
Can solar-induced fluorescence be used to accurately estimate photosynthetic traits at different scales?
Plants & People
How a forgotten plant of Mexico’s tropical forests revolutionised life for women
A plant native to the tropical forests of Mexico was essential for the development of the contraceptive pill.
Uncategorized
Cómo una planta ahora olvidada de los bosques tropicales mexicanos revolucionó la vida de las mujeres
Una planta de los bosques tropicales de México fue esencial para el desarrollo de la pastilla anticonceptiva.
Growth & Development
The shape of “baby plants” in the amaranth family show adaptations to extreme habitats
Adaptation to extreme habitats starts in the seed.
Computational Models
Modelling the potential of soybean cropping in Northern European regions
Soybean is not commonly grown in Northern Europe, but can it be, and how?
Taxonomy & Evolution
Seed dormancy of the threatened Spanish daffodil Narcissus yepesii
Can the seed dormancy class of Narcissus yepesii explain the different dormancy levels seen in two closely related phylogenetic congeners?
Growth & Development
What traits govern root sprouting in temperate herbs?
The ability is most common in dry, open habitats, and most vigorous where disturbance is frequent.
Taxonomy & Evolution
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.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Impacts of land use on the stress responses of an invasive grass
Can ecotypic origin (i.e. agricultural vs. non-agricultural) and environmental selection pressures predict biomass accumulation in Johnsongrass?
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Horizontal gene transfer found between moss plastids
The transfer may have been triggered by the large-scale liming of acidic mires.
Close Encounters
How mammals and molluscs attack oaks
Foraging decisions of molluscs and mammals repulse seedlings from old adults.