AoB PLANTS
Two buses together tell how plants sense that oxygen is running low
Waiting for ages for a bus to come along only for two to arrive at once is guaranteed to raise a frown, or worse. But, in
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Modelling tree girdling responses
Girdling, or the removal of a strip of bark around a tree’s outer circumference, is often used to study carbon relations. De Schepper and Steppe
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Modelling growth of the cambial surface
Individual tree growth models traditionally focus on apical growth and architecture; however, cambial growth equally contributes to plant form and function. Sellier et al. present a
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Remote sensing and 3-D sapling reconstruction
There is an increasing need for rapid and non-destructive determination of individual tree traits to input into forest management systems. Delagrange and Rochon test two
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Rocks versus Clocks
What happened 670 million years ago? Can’t remember? Doesn’t matter, that’s why we have palaeobotanists. Palaeobotanists that is whose science it seems has
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Modelling fruit temperature dynamics in apple
Although fruit temperature is known to be a key parameter involved in fruit quality, sunburn injury and pest development, no specific modelling approach to it has
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Questions, questions, questions!
If science is about anything it is about asking questions. But these days it seems that it’s not enough for each individual white-coated, ivory-
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Rules are made to be broken, but not that one!
Whilst physicists try to understand the implications of, and undo any harm done by, the announcement that certain particles can travel faster than the speed of
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Chromosome pairing in Musa interspecific cultivars
Most cooking and several desert bananas are interspecific triploid hybrids between Musa acuminata (A genome) and M. balbisiana (B genome). To investigate the possibility of chromosome
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Reticulate evolution and triploidy in Diphasiastrum
Diphasiastrum species have been assumed to produce homoploid hybrids whose reproductive competence is still a matter of debate. Using flow cytometry, Bennert et al. demonstrate that
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Characterization of 3-D patterns of disease in cherry
Spatial patterns of plant disease provide important information about pathogen source, spread and reproduction. Using point pattern analysis, Everhart et al. generate detailed three-dimensional maps
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Molecular control of legume nodulation (Botanical Briefing)
Legume plants enter into symbiotic relationships with soil bacteria in order to obtain nitrogen to sustain plant growth. The nodulation associated with this is regulated in