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The role of ROS in soybean seed germination
Reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), can promote seed germination in a number of species but their role in soybean has not been
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Evolution of genome size in Carex
Knowledge of evolution of genome size in species with holocentric chromosomes is limited. Lipnerová et al. study genome size and base composition in the holocentric genus
Plant Cuttings
Nanoparticles may compromise crops
Advances (ever an optimistic notion!) in technology take many forms and may have unanticipated consequences. Take, for example, the emerging discipline of nanotechnology, which works with
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How does a plant get a taste for meat?
One of the reasons carnivorous plants are so popular has to be their weirdness. They turn a lot of assumptions about plants upside down. But how
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Fire and daily temperatures as germination cues
Brief but high soil temperatures caused by fire are followed by a more prolonged shift in the range of daily soil temperatures as a result of
Plant Cuttings
This one could run and run (and run…)
‘What would scientists learn if they could run studies that lasted for hundreds or thousands of years—or more?’. In other words, rather than being forced
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Genetic relationships of section Arachis specie
Section Arachis includes cultivated peanut (A. hypogaea), an allotetraploid, and closely related wild species, most of which are diploids. Moretzsohn et al. use sequences from three
Plants & People
Snow in the botanic gardens
Since every newspaper in the UK is featuring pages of pictures of the snow, I thought I would add some from the Botanic Gardens of the
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Resin secretory structures and yield of frankincense
Frankincense, a gum-resin, has been tapped from Boswellia papyrifera trees for centuries but information on the resin secretory structures is virtually absent. Tolera et al.
Plant Cuttings
Junior science: that shrinking feeling…
We often bemoan the fact that we know neither whither nor whence will come the next generation of plant scientists (e.g. Sinéad Drea). Well, here’
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Looking pretty leads to female sexual success, not so good for males
Get the paper FREE If you’re a plant who wants to reproduce should you have more flowers? I thought the answer might simply be a
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Plant Mating Systems goes to Free Access in time for the SAAB conference
Normally a year after they’re published issues of Annals of Botany become free to access. There’s a symposium “Pollinators as drivers of plant speciation”