AoB PLANTS
Grass is not glamourous, but it is important
Napier grass is an important forage crop that has been grown over centuries and enjoys a multiplicity of uses besides conventional animal consumption.
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10 Plants Used to Spice up Sex
It’s well-known that plants can affect how the brain works. Take the right plant in the right dose and you can have an altered
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Will Martian cuisine have a terrifying surprise?
Mars One has launched a project to put humans on Mars by cutting out one of the biggest costs of the mission. Putting a human into
Reviews
What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz
If you’re looking to show doubters that plants are fascinating then a good starting point is Daniel Chamovitz‘s What a Plant Knows. I was
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Welcome to Fascination of Plants Day on AoB Blog
Today is Fascination of Plants Day. To celebrate we’ll have a few posts out today. At midday we have a review of What a Plant
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Ecological significance of seed recalcitrance in Quercus
Several widespread tree species of temperate forests produce desiccation-sensitive seeds, but the ecological significance of this is largely unknown.
Plant Cuttings
An over-abundance of nitrogen…?
Nitrogen is an essential macronutrient for plants – they cannot complete their life cycle without it – and is needed in relatively large amounts.
annals-of-botany
Fine-scale mating patterns in a clonal plant species
Spatial spread of genetically identical plants may decrease paternal diversity and fertility, particularly towards the centre of large clumps of clones.
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The life of a high-powered duo! (2)
It seems that for some plants and insects the attraction is so strong that they could not live without each other. This post is in both English and French.
AoB PLANTS
Apple Epigenetics
Apple epigenetics might explain CO2 injury, which can cause major losses of fruit during storage.
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Constitutive and herbivore-induced plant volatiles differentially attract an omnivorous biocontrol agent
Constitutive and herbivore-induced plant volatiles differentially attract an omnivorous biocontrol agent.
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Chromosome evolution in marginal Aegilops speltoides populations (Review)
Genome restructuring is an ongoing process in natural plant populations and the influence of environmental changes on the genome is crucial.