Plant Cuttings
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part III
This is the third of our quartet of posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens. Asteroids, bad for dinosaurs, but good for cyanobacteria?
Plant Cuttings
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part II
Continuing our look at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens. DOM, a double-edged sword … From a bad news point of view – bad for those
Growth & Development
Venus flytraps meet post-capture energy needs with cyclic electron transport
A switch from linear to cyclic electron transport provides the extra boost needed until energy can be taken up from the insect itself.
Plant Cuttings
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part I
This is the first of what is hoped to be a series in which Mr P. Cuttings looks at a group of organisms and tries to
Growth & Development
Are males and females produced in equal proportions in the sexually cryptic coco de mer?
Morgan et al. explores sex ratios in populations of Lodoicea maldivica in the Seychelles.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Repetitive DNA is not behind genome size variation in Anacyclus
Plant genome size (GS) varies widely – by as much as a factor of 2500 in land plants alone. Outside of genome duplication (polyploidy), repetitive DNA is
Taxonomy & Evolution
Evolutionary history of Pseudotaxus: old lineage, young populations
In southeast China there is a puzzle. Pseudotaxus chienii lives as a relict, a plant that used to have a much wider geographic range. Now it’
Growth & Development
Auxin redistribution modifies maize root proliferation
We know that maize roots chase after phosphorus, but how? Xin Wang and colleagues have been investigating what purpose the hormone auxin has in controlling root
Close Encounters
Mutualistic relationship between mangrove plants and diazotrophs
Trees need nitrogen. When they shed leaves with all the nitrogen in them it would be a big loss, were it not for the army of
Growth & Development
Plant economics spectrum theory holds true within ferns
Plants usually have limited resources in one way or another. There is only so much nutrient in the soil. How best to use it? The plant
Ecosystems
Last stand of the Saharan Cypress?
A new article in Planta attempts to help preserve a tree that has survived in the Sahara for thousands of years.
Close Encounters
Continuous variation in herkogamy in Mediterranean honeysuckle populations
Herkogamy, the spatial separation of sex organs in hermaphroditic plants, is thought to have evolved to reduce self-pollination and inbreeding within a population. Yet there