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Can intensification be sustainable?
Contemporary interest in agricultural sustainability can be traced to environmental concerns that began to appear in the 1950s and 1960s. However, concepts and practices about sustainability
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Novel lineage-specific inversion and legume plastome evolution
Martin et al. sequence the plastome of Lupinus luteus, representing the Genistoid lineage, and perform comparative analyses at the structural and sequence levels.
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Scientists look for a common language in Himalaya ecology
The Himalaya range of mountains is famous all over the world. This is the world’s largest mountain range with fastest uplift rate hosts enormous physical
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Complete outcrossing in a monoecious clonal seagrass
A study of clonal structure, mating system and pollen dispersal in two seagrass meadows of Posidonia australis with contrasting environmental conditions.
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Microgravity and chromosome damage
The Karyological Observations of Krikorian and O’Connor look at plant material from flights STS-2 and STS-3 of the Space Shuttle. STS-2, among
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Polyploidy and long-distance dispersal
Most of the numerous and remarkable range disjunctions across the southern oceans are probably the result of occasional long-distance dispersal, rather than of vicariance. Linder
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Use it or lose it, for a plant’s sense of gravity?
Gravitropism is the ability of a plant to turn in response to gravity. Roots have gravitropism, bending to turn down and stems negative gravitropism to turn
AoB PLANTS
Rapid divergence of ecotypes of an invasive plant
Invasive species represent examples of rapid evolutionary change in a relatively short time period. Lantana camara, a well known invasive plant in the tropics and sub-
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Is there a downside for plants when they can’t sense ‘up’?
Looking at a tree, it can be hard to visualise the sheer volume of water being drawn up from the roots to the canopy. That volume
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Transgenerational changes in seed longevity in Silene
A study of seeds from alpine & lowland populations of Silene vulgaris shows that seed longevity has a genetic basis, but may show strong adaptive responses.
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Calibrating data in a weightless environment
A Test to Verify the Biocompatibility of a Method for Plant Culture in a Microgravity Environment by Brown and Chapman is an example of the basic
Plant Cuttings
Bloody royal French gourd debunked
One of the most unusual plant-based items that has come to my notice recently is this rather ‘quirky’ item that sheds a forensic botany light