Reviews
A life of trees sometimes hidden by lush verdant text
The review might have appeared a lot faster, if there wasn’t a problem with the language in Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees.
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Winter is coming: plant freezing resistance as a key functional trait
Mediterranean annual seedlings need to survive winter freezing temperatures to produce seeds in the spring. Pescador et al. test whether functional structure related to plant freezing
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The Broccoli Tree
Via BoingBoing came this video on the Broccoli Tree by the vlogbrothers You can visit the instagram stream at thebroccolitree. As art, it’s fascinating as
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Orchid populations and endophytic fungi change with rainfall and prescribed burning in Pterostylis
Wildfires are common in seasonally dry parts of the world with a Mediterranean climate. Prescribed burning is used to reduce fuel load and fire risk, but
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Anna Atkins Photographic Pioneer
For International Women’s Day 2018, we celebrate the life and work of Anna Atkins, a pioneer of photography. She pushed the technology of her day
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Rare soil bacteria affect plant performance
It is not known how loss of rare soil microbes affects plant defence against aphids. Kurm et al. inoculated soil with a serial dilution of a
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Contrasting soil-texture niches, competitive abilities, and coexistence
When closely related plant species occur in the same region, their distributions at small spatial scales are expected to depend on whether they have evolved different
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Non-Specific Phospholipase C2 (NPC2) in plant immune responses in Arabidopsis
The non-specific phospholipases C (NPC) are recently discovered new subclass of plant phospholipases. Most of them have not yet been characterised thoroughly. Krčková et al.
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Botany global … and local
You can help save the planet with a tweet.
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Physiological basis of miscanthus chilling tolerance
The biomass crop Miscanthus x giganteus has a high chilling tolerance for a C4 plant, allowing for a longer productive growing season in temperate climates. The
Growth & Development
Pining for resistance: a new way to assess pine susceptibility to fungal diseases
McAllister et al. demonstrate the utility of rh-qPCR to quantify ophiostomoid fungi in situ from MPB and pine DNA extracts
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Sorghum root-system classification in contrasting phosphor environments
Genotypes with an exploratory root system at both high and limited P availability, which may be advantageous if N or water is the limiting factor, showed the highest P uptake levels.