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PtHMGR overexpression enhances tolerance of salt and drought
Overexpression of PtHMGR enhanced the stress resistance of poplar.
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How do you measure a tree’s flammability without burning it?
Forest fires are a problem, but how do you measure a tree’s flammability? New research suggests you look to the shoots, not the leaves.
AoB PLANTS
Domestication influences morphological and physiological responses to salinity in Brassica oleracea seedlings
Wild germplasm can potentially be used to improve the salt tolerance of crops by the identification of useful genes and incorporation of these into salinity-sensitive cultivars.
annals-of-botany
Where did the first flowers grow?
Botanists have tried to understand the conditions that led to the evolution of the first flowers by reconstructing the niches from which the earliest flowering plants diverged.
annals-of-botany
Role of ploidy in Arabidopsis arenosa colonization of alpine habitats
Doubling the chromosomes of Arabidopsis arenosa does not always lead to strong ecological niche differentiation.
AoB PLANTS
Climate change, snow mold and the Bromus tectorum invasion: mixed evidence for release from cold weather pathogens
Thinning snow pack cover could alter how snow molds interact with plants over the winter.
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Three kinds of algae? Blooming marvellous news!
Bloom: From food to fuel, the epic story of how algae can save our world by Ruth Kassinger 2019. Elliott & Thompson. As a Botanist, especially
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What factors make a deadly carrot so dangerous?
The deadly carrot might sound as likely as the killer tomato, but decoding the defences of Thapsia garganica might have a big pay-off in the future.
annals-of-botany
Compensatory base changes on an ITS2 phylogeny of Corydalis
Compensatory base changes (CBCs) that occur in stems of ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) can have important phylogenetic implications. Li et al. quantify how CBCs
annals-of-botany
Origin and genome evolution of Cardamine occulta
For the first time, whole-genome cytogenomic maps were established for octoploid plants.
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How do alien pathogens make inroads into native plant networks?
Plant-pathogen networks tend to be modular, with pathogens specialising on specific hosts. What happens when a pathogen arrives from elsewhere?
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Damage above the ground baffles a plant’s roots
It’s common to see pictures of plants as mirror images above and below the ground, but research in AmJBot shows that leaf vein damage harms root foraging.