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The March 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now Free Access
The March 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now Free Access. The cover image is of two generations of moss, the younger sporophytes growing from
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The Importance of Access
Kevin Folta has put up a thought-provoking post on his blog, Illumination. There’s been a flurry of news stories around a new research paper
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NnSR1, a non-S-RNase induced by phosphate deficiency
Rojas et al. demonstrate that NnSR1 (Nicotiana non-S-RNase1) is induced in roots of Nicotiana alata subjected to phosphate deprivation.
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A unifying model for isoprene emission (Research in Context)
Morfopoulos et al. hypothesize that NADPH availability for isoprene biosynthesis depends on the balance of electron supply and Calvin cycle demand.
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You can’t be best at everything…
There is a widespread belief that everything in/of/from/about America is bigger, better, faster, etc, than anything from elsewhere in the world. That is
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Pavement cells, a living puzzle
Perhaps you enjoy solving jigsaw puzzles. Have you heard about living jigsaw puzzles? Imagine such a puzzle in which the individual pieces were not static but
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Células en la epidermis de la hoja: un rompecabezas viviente
Quizá te gusta resolver rompecabezas. ¿Has escuchado alguna vez sobre rompecabezas vivientes? Imagina un rompecabezas donde las piezas no permanecieran fijas sino que cambiaran constantemente. Lo
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Improving abiotic stress tolerance in crops (Invited Review)
Shabala identifies physiological mechanisms conferring salinity tolerance in halophytes that can be introduced into non-halophyte crop species to improve their performance under saline conditions.
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More myth-busting!
It’s a tribute to the fantasticness of plants – and photosynthesis in particular – that even animals want to be like them. Arguably, none more so than
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Impact of nitrogen availability and soil communities on biomass accumulation of an invasive species
Exotic plant species impact belowground processes by influencing resource availability through enhanced microbial activity as a consequence of litter inputs. We have little understanding of the
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Water stress, xylem hydraulic failure and tree death
The results of this study demonstrate that massive cavitation is probably a causal factor for tree mortality under extreme water stress conditions.
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Trichome evolution in Neotropical lianas
Trichomes are epidermal outgrowths generally associated with protection against desiccation and herbivores. These structures are widely distributed on plant parts but evolutionary studies of trichomes are