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Contrasting effects of yeast and bacteria on floral nectar traits
Guests in flowers can make a location more attractive – or can put off pollinators from visiting.
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Identifying evolutionary patterns in complex plant groups with DNA barcoding
The sequencing of short standardised pieces of DNA (DNA barcodes) is commonly used to tell species apart. This approach is thought to be of limited value
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Elevated carbon dioxide: Getting to the root of the problem
How will plants respond to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere? Botanists at BIFoR, the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research have gone underground to find some of the answers.
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CAM recycling and salt tolerance in Talinum triangulare
Can more water efficient photosynthesis be induced in plants? Montero and colleagues find Talinum triangulare can switch on CAM photosynthesis.
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Root hairs to halt global warming
Can plants help fight global warming? Nigel Chaffey looks to the roots.
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Biotic- and abiotic-driven variations of the night-time sap flux of three co-occurring tree species in a low subtropical secondary broadleaf forest
Although several studies on the night-time water use of different plant species have been reported, comparative studies under the same climatic conditions of a region
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Why are the seed cones of conifers so diverse at pollination?
Wind-pollinated plants rely on the same breezes to deliver pollen. If the problem’s the same for all of them, why do conifers have different shaped cones to catch pollen?
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A reassessment of the genome size – invasiveness relationship in reed canary grass
The smaller a plant’s genome, the more likely it is to be invasive? Or so it was thought but newer techniques are casting some doubt on the idea.
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Within- and trans-generational plasticity: seed germination responses to light quantity and quality
Plants respond not only to the environment in which they find themselves, but also to that of their parents. The combination of within- and trans-generational
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Splash dispersal and disease resistance in mixtures of cultivars with contrasting height
Cultivar mixtures have an important role to play in reducing the propagation of diseases, as is evident from the well-documented results of growing mixtures of
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Outer space comes to Cambridge
Some saxifrages are almost literally out of this world.
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Variation in the degree of reciprocal herkogamy affects the degree of legitimate pollination in a distylous species, Primula chungensis
Distyly is a well-known floral syndrome, first identified by Charles Darwin, characterised by the flowers within a population showing reciprocal placement of the anthers and