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Chocolate AND red wine!(!)
Plants and plant products might not necessarily bring you wealth, but they can bring health, and enjoyment. (And, if you are a purveyor of plant-based
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Manninotriose dynamics in Lamium purpureum
Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are ubiquitous in higher plants and function as transport compounds, and are also involved in stress tolerance mechanisms and perhaps also signalling
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Bad analogies
I’ve been sent a paper today to see if we can put out a press release for it. It’s fascinating and it touches on
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Nepenthes pitfall traps are an anti-microbial environment
Nepenthes pitfall traps are an anti-microbial environment which prevents microbes competing with their hosts for vital nutrients in short supply.
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Biogeography of Tecophilaeaceae
Tecophilaeaceae is a small family with a peculiar disjunct distribution in California, Chile and southern and tropical mainland Africa, and occurs mainly in arid regions, including
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Plight of Plant taxonomy and taxonomists in India: What, Why and How?
An entry by R. Siva and S. Babu of VIT University. Plant Systematics involves the recognition, comparison, classification and naming the millions of plants that have
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Nitrogen and water use efficiencies under elevated CO2
Water and nitrogen are two limiting resources for biomass production of terrestrial vegetation. Palmroth et al. employ optimization theory to quantify interactions between marginal water and
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Yes, but WHY?
On a related ‘down-under’ theme to my previous posting re scarecrows(!), I pose this question: Just because we can, does that mean we should? After
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Altitude, temperature and gas exchange of bryophytes
Tropical bryophytes greatly increase in abundance and diversity with altitude, but the reasons for this are unclear. Wagner et al. study temperature responses of net photosynthesis
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Current methods for detecting ethylene in plants (Invited Review)
Ethylene plays critical roles in developmental and physiological processes and is thus an important subject of research. Cristescu et al. review current methods available for ethylene
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Scaring the crows…
One way of increasing crop productivity is to increase the amount of grain or other harvestable product that is actually harvested from the plant. To that
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Tree Physiology shines a light on the understorey
Trees dominate forests, but not all the plants there are trees. They can flourish in clearings, but what about the places in shadow?