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The controversial origin of the coconut
So where do coconuts originate from – America or Asia?
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Domestication – rabbits now catching up with plants
Domestication of species is critical for our farming and own nutrition, as well as being important for retrospective studies of evolutionary genetics and future applications in
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A better understanding of wheat gluten
Wheat is the most important food crop in the temperate world, but we know little about the gluten it contains.
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A new website introducing genetic engineering
The Journey of a Gene is a new website at UNL-Nebraska that teaches the basics of genetic engineering. There’s a combination of videos, some
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Pollen limitation and reduced reproductive success
Even though P. virginiana is a widespread species, fragmented populations experience significant reductions in fruit set and pollen limitation.
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Biomechanical responses of hemlock to herbivory
Soltis et al. study the impact of feeding by hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae, on the biomechanics of eastern hemlock trees, Tsuga canadensis.
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Density × species evenness effects on coexistence and growth
Collet et al. study a tree plantation that mixes beech and sycamore according to a double gradient of density and species’ proportion, and find that density and tree size are the primary factors determining individual growth and stand productivity.
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Bizarre flowers, chloride ions and auxin, and the role of pectin in stomatal development – this week in Annals of Botany
All the latest plant science news from Annals of Botany.
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Stevia hits the mainstream with ‘Life’
Last year Aurélien Azam blogged about Stevia in his post, Can we find all the tastes we like in the Wild? He mentions Stevia in it
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The hidden cost of frankincense
A while back we covered a paper in Annals of Botany on tapping frankincense for resin. The mapping of the canals in the tree promised to
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Intracellular ice and cell survival in seeds of Acer
A study of embryonic axes of silver maple, Acer saccharinum, subjected to various drying, cooling and warming treatments, finds that intracellular ice formation is not necessarily lethal.
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Does Plant Science need a Sagan or Sheldon?
Here’s a slow reaction to a post at ASPB Plant Science Blog by Ian Street, Communicating Plant Science in the Digital Age. It’s taking