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Carnivorous plants: a review
Carnivory offers plants special advantages in habitats where nutrient supply is scarce, but counterbalancing costs are the investments in the synthesis and maintenance of trapping organs
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Purple acid phosphatase genes in soybean
Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) are members of the metallo-phosphoesterase family and have been known to play important roles in P acquisition and recycling in plants.
Reviews
Botanical terms – in words and pictures
How often have you come across a new – to you, the reader, that is! – term in a botanical text and wondered what it meant? Well, OK,
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Germination, temperature and water potential in Jatropha
Jatropha curcas is a drought-resistant tree whose seeds are a good source of oil that can be used for producing biodiesel. Windauer et al. examine
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Floral characters in Capanemia
Capanemia, an orchid comprising seven species and mostly found in the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest, is divided into two sections based on leaf shape. Buzatto et
Plant Cuttings
Innovate to accumulate!
As we start another new year people often resolve to do things better than in the old one. And as we continue to face global cash-
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A new fossil taxon of Asteraceae
Barreda et al. describe Raiguenrayun cura gen. & sp. nov., an extinct Eocene taxon of the daisy family that might represent the ancestor of Mutisioideae–Carduoideae,
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Faces of Plant Cell Biology: A series on PlantCellBiology.com from Anne Osterrieder
Anne Osterrieder has a new series on her blog called Faces of plant cell biologists, where we are asked a series of questions. So far, it
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Axillary meristems in Wollemi nobilis (Viewpoints)
In a recent paper (Annals of Botany 107: 909–916; 2011) Tomlinson and Huggett indicated that reiterative branches in the pine Wollemi nobilis develop from groups
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The New Agriculturist
Via Scoop.it – AnnBot New Agriculturist online at http://www.new-ag.info provides an update on the latest news and developments in tropical agriculture for
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Carrot Transformation with Agrobacterium
This videoblog from http://www.AoBBlog.com is about one of the Cell and Developmental Biology practicals that I run at the University of Leicester for
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Does rain forest grow back? Archaeology might have the answer
Most international archaeological work in South America has concentrated on the Andes for various reasons. It’s more accessible, the ruins are more visible, there’s