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After Google Reader
Google Reader closes at the end of the month, and it’s going to make a few things around the web break. Here, we use it
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Shade-avoidance syndrome in Arabidopis thaliana
This study finds that the ERECTA gene is implicated in the shade-avoidance signalling in a background-dependent manner.
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Conservative shoot P content under varying supply
The Australian legume Viminaria juncea forms both cluster roots and mycorrhizal associations. de Campos et al. manipulate P supply over a range of 0 to 50
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Flowering time control by miR159 in gloxinia
Gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa) is a popular ornamental plant with attractive, colourful flowers, but the genetic mechanisms that regulate flowering are largely unknown. Li et al. generate
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Et si l’agroforesterie remplaçait les monocultures en Europe…
Longtemps considérée comme une méthode culturale réservée aux pays du Sud, l’agroforesterie connaît depuis peu une certaine expansion en Europe. L’agroforesterie définit toute association
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Do you believe agroforestry may replace monoculture in Europe?
Agroforestry was first considered as a farming method restricted to the South only, but it has recently experienced new challenges in Europe. Agroforestry is defined as
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Succulent plants of Africa and America: Do these lookalikes live alike?
There are numerous examples in nature of distantly-related organisms converging on similar shapes that have proved useful to each. This convergent evolution can generate strikingly
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Maternal cuticle protects moss offspring from dehydration
Funaria hygrometrica calyptra may represent the earliest occurrence of maternal protection via structural provisioning of a cuticle in green plants.
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Assignment of SNP allelic configuration in polyploids
Estimation of allele copy numbers for molecular markers is a challenge for polyploid species.
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The King of Observers
Fritz Müller (Johann Friedrich Theodor Fritz Müller), was a German naturalist. He was born near Erfurt in 1821. He was the son of a minister, and
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Blessed are the peas-makers…
Given the importance of chickpeas, arguably the more genomes the better, not least in helping efforts to develop more drought-tolerant forms.
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Shifts in mating systems under contrasting environments
Establishment of plant populations in novel environments may generate shifts in floral traits and plant mating systems.