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How American should an American Chestnut be?
The American Chestnut used to rule the forests of North America. However in the early 20th century a blight almost wiped them out. Billions of trees
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Fluid properties influence diet in Nepenthes pitcher plants
Fluid from pitchers of four Nepenthes species is studied to determine retention capacity and time-to-kill for different species of ants and flies.
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Petal spur development in Centranthus
When concealed by petal spurs, nectar typically is restricted to flower-visiting animals possessing a sufficient tongue length to acquire it, and thus such spurs have
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Climate change and wood formation
Rising temperatures since the late 1970s have increased aridity in many regions of the globe, exposing semi-arid forests to additional stress.
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Trees? Tibetan dendrochronologists don’t need trees!
Everyone knows that you can age a tree by counting its rings, and the width of those rings is a record of climate. But do you
annals-of-botany
Control of adventitious rooting and xylogenesis in arabidopsis
A study of Arabidopsis transcription factors finds that AR-formation and xylogenesis are inversely related but involve fine-tuning by the same proteins.
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Drinking in the name of SCIENCE!
I’m used to Science driving people to drink, but next week it’s hoped that drink will drive people to Science. The Pint of Science
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Why are carnivorous plants?
A new paper in Annals of Botany reviews the cost–benefit model for the evolution of botanical carnivores.
Plants & People
Science, Politics and Evidence
I write a few of these posts in advance. So this is being written the day before the General Election in the UK to come out
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Biodiversity flourishes in an ancient rubbish tip
The preservation of archeological sites does not always overlap with the conservation of biodiversity. At the most basic level, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
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Co-ordinated carbohydrate metabolism and hormone synthesis enables plants to survive unfavourable field conditions
Chrysolaena obovata, an aster of the Brazilian Cerrado, presents seasonal growth, marked by senescence of aerial organs in winter and subsequent regrowth at the end of
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Reaction of Tibetan plants to climate change
A novel aspect of how climate change might affect plant–pollinator interactions and plant reproduction.