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Functional–structural plant models (FSPM) define the interactions between the plants and their environment at organ to plant scale. However, the high level of description of
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A telomere is the region of DNA that marks the end of a chromosome. The protect the ends of the chromosome, and stop one chromosome from
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You may have heard the phrase “you are what you eat”, but some scientists are tracking the evolution of new diets in orchids by taking the phrase literally.
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Salinity affects plant growth and metabolites in plants, which in turn affect Cd accumulation. Cheng et al. ran a hydroponic experiment to assess the effect of
Plant Cuttings
We’re not usually that big on plant genomes (“the complete set of genetic information in an organism”) in Cuttings items. We know what they are,
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Long terminal repeat-retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) comprise a large portion of plant genomes, with massive repeat blocks distributed across the chromosomes. Eleocharis (Cyperaceae) species have holocentric
AoB PLANTS
Native and alien trees associate with a wide range of beneficial fungi, but the few studies of these interactions tend to focus only on a few
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On September 7, 2018, The Linnean Society held a conference “How Are We Communicating the Importance of Taxonomy and Systematics?”
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Diurnal changes in solar position plus occlusion caused by overlapping foliage means that throughout a day, leaves alternate between periods where they are either sunlit or
Ecosystems
Kew’s report highlights how ignorant we are of an astonishingly successful Kingdom of life.
Plant Cuttings
We rightly ponder the problem of future food security – in which plants, plant science, and plant scientists (in the broadest sense of that term) have a
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Some plants rely on gnats for pollination, but they also rely on fungi to provide a food source for the next generation of gnats.