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Abscisic acid and seed development in a lady’s slipper orchid
Abscisic acid concentration and distribution during seed development of Cypripedium formosanum serves as the key inhibitor of germination.
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A simple wildflower garden with a surprising success
A garden planted to attract bees and insects has starting is now visited by something else.
Plants & People
Dr Dafydd Wynn Parry (1919-2015)
Dr Dafydd Wynn Parry was a pioneering figure in the field of phytolith research, publishing between the 1950s and 1980s.
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Complexities of orchid seedling establishment (Viewpoint)
A better understanding of germination and seedling establishment is needed for the conservation of vulnerable or threatened orchid populations.
Plant Cuttings
Question: when is a seed not a seed?
This article explores the future potential for DOI numbers to be used in identifying plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
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Polyphyletic relationships in Sorghum
Phylogenetic reconstruction techniques reveal evidence for a two-lineage polyphyletic ancestry of Sorghum within the larger Andropogoneae.
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Transient dynamics improve population projections for orchids
A combined approach of asymptotic and transient dynamics expands the understanding of possible population changes for a rare epiphytic orchid.
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Endemism Hotspots as Climate Change Refugia: A Special Issue of Annals of Botany
Centers of endemism have long been of interest to biogeographers, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists, and more recently to conservation biologists, who often recognize them as biodiversity
Cells, Genes & Molecules
The Hulk is Green, but is he Organic?
Scotland is to ban GMOs, because there’s more to GMOs than Science. It might sound good, but is it really a way to a more
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Leaf movements and lunisolar gravitational force
A new perspective on the regulation of leaf-movement rhythms and synchronism between the times of the turning points of both the lunisolar tide and leaftide
Plant Cuttings
Sport and drugs…
We explore some sporting dilemmas encroaching on botanical issues.
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Life cycle stage, flooding depth and adventitious root formation
This study finds that adventitious root formation is constrained in juvenile compared to mature plants, and is delayed by deep compared to shallow flooding.