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How you can use online herbaria to learn about plants
As part of Plant Facts Week (#PlantFactsWeek🌱) we present this post about online herbaria and the great things you can learn about plants and get involved
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A new addition to the Patagonian Ceratopetalum five-winged fossil fruit family
Museomic approaches are employed in order to establish an evolutionary, palaeoecological, and biogeographic context for radially symmetrical, five-winged fossil fruits from the highly diverse early
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Amborella trichopoda helps reveal features of the first flowering plants
It’s difficult to peer into the past to see the first flowering plant, but Charlie Scutt shows how an ancestor in the modern-era provides some clues as to what it looked like.
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The global distribution of bamboos
Bamboos are one of the most economically important plant groups globally, but this worldwide trade creates risks of invasions. In a recent review published in AoB
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Black-grass: the farmer’s nemesis
Visit an arable farm in England, particularly in its central and Southern parts, and ask the farmer what their number one problem is on their farm. They will most likely tell you it is black-grass.
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Hierarchical modularity hypothesis for Equisetum reproductive morphology
Sporangiophore development and Equisetum strobilus: how fossils and reproductive morphologies illuminate horsetail origins and homology
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Facts, alternative facts and ‘Plant Facts Week’
For Joe Friday, it was enough to ask for “just the facts, ma’am.”* But do the facts help science communication?
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Light competition suppresses couch grass more efficiently than nutrient competition
Competitive crops are important for sustainable cropping systems. For perennial weeds, below-ground organs, for instance rhizomes for couch grass, constitute the best measure of a
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Launching ‘Botany Live’: a global online event to celebrate ‘Fascination of Plants Day 2017’
What do you think of when you think of plants?
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Relative fructose content and tomato susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea
Plant defence against Botrytis cinerea, a ubiquitous pathogenic fungus, is known to depend upon the mobilisation of sugars which provide energy and carbon skeletons for the
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Model-based calculating tool for gene flow
The potential socioeconomic and environmental impacts caused by transgene flow from genetically engineered (GE) crops have stimulated worldwide biosafety concerns. A recent study published in AoB
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Gene expression in Musa acuminata during interactions with Meloidogyne incognita
Root-knot nematodes (RKN) (Meloidogyne spp) cause considerable losses in banana (Musa sp.). Castañeda et al. investigate the root transcriptome in Musa acuminata during compatible interactions