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MEME ALL THE THINGS!
claimtoken-5131d8ef1e500 “That famous quote: analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog – nobody laughs and the frog dies. Absolutely true, but you still learn a lot
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A new day dawning: Hemerocallis as a model organism
Genetic model organisms have revolutionized science, and with rapid advances in technology there is significant potential to launch more plant species towards model status. However, these new model organisms have to be carefully selected.
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Mastoparan-induced programmed cell death in Chlamydomonas
Under stress-promoting conditions unicellular algae can undergo programmed cell death (PCD), but the mechanisms are poorly understood. Yordanova et al. expose Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to the
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New plants for a dimmer future?
As anyone who merely glances at the titles of scientific articles will tell you, when ‘new species’ and ‘China’ are seen together it is usually a
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Kew launches its breathing planet campaign
I wonder if the word Garden is a hinderance. Kew is the plant equivalent of a zoo, yet we use the same word for it as
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Functional pollinators and morph ratio in Narcissus
Heterostyly and related style polymorphisms are good model systems to evaluate the importance of functional pollinators in the maintenance of population variability. Santos-Gally et al.
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My enemy’s enemy…?
Recently a lot of comments on the Bowman vs. Monsanto court case have been in my social media streams. If you’ve not heard about this,
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Physical mapping of a male-sterile locus in Brassica
Spontaneous male sterility is an advantageous trait for both producing hybrids and understanding the developmental process of the male reproductive unit in many crops. Lu et
AoB PLANTS
Breathe in, breathe out
A paper in AoB PLANTS describes new methods for real-time monitoring of trace gases such as ethylene, nitric oxide and ethanol which play an important role in many areas of biology.
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Biodiversity and conservation of heathlands (Invited Review)
Heathlands are human-shaped habitats that have a strong cultural and natural value, adding substantially to many ecosystem services such as food and water supply, carbon
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AGPs in Trithuria reproductive structures
Trithuria is the sole genus of Hydatellaceae, a family of the early-divergent angiosperm lineage Nymphaeales. In order to help determine the early evolution of angiosperm
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2013, International Year of the Wallace(?)
If 2009 ‘belonged’ to Charles Darwin then, if there’s any justice in the world, 2013 has to be ‘owned’ by Alfred Russel Wallace.