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Improving lives through research on banana biodiversity
Numerous communities in developing countries depend on bananas as a staple food and as a source of income. The vast majority of producers are smallholder farmers
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Physical dormancy and the water gap in Geranium
Physical dormancy and the water gap in <i>Geranium</i> A water gap is a small opening that forms on breaking of
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Estimating below-ground biomass in forest plantations
Despite its importance in a wide variety of studies, accurate estimation of below-ground biomass and its distribution in the soil is notoriously difficult. Levillain et
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QTL analysis of heterostyly in Primula
Heterostyly and self-incompatibility are usually controlled by the S locus complex, but the usually distylous Primula siebolodii shows continuous variation of anther and stigma position
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Inbreeding and outbreeding depression in Grevillea
For many Australian plants little is known about either their population genetics or the effects on mating systems of variation in pollen transfer distances. Forrest et
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Tiers for souvenirs?
News of a new-ish plant science journal now. The Open Access online Frontiers in Plant Science, which ‘welcomes outstanding contributions in any field of plant
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Tetraploidization in apomictic citrus
The gene pool of Citrus and related genera of Aurantioideae is essentially diploid but tetraploid plants are frequently encountered in seedlings of diploid apomictic genotypes. Aleza
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Date sex – XY marks the spot
Dates, the sticky, sweet fruits of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), are the product of sexual reproduction in that plant and borne on the female plants
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Networks, systems biology and data analysis
In my research, I always seem to be somewhere near the extremes of having too much data or not having enough data to address the questions
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Vegetation structure and invasibility of arctic tundra
Plant productivity and the cover of shrubs, grasses and dead plant material in arctic tundra are predicted to increase and the cover of bryophytes to decrease
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Juvenility and flowering of Brunonia and Calandrinia
The time at which plants are transferred to floral-inductive conditions affects the onset of flowering and plant morphology, due to juvenility. Cave et al. show
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Epicotyl dormancy in Viburnum seeds
Seeds of many Viburnum species have epicotyl dormancy, but little is known about the temperature requirements for radicle and shoot emergennce. Chien et al. incubate fresh