Plant Cuttings
Plant cell biology in the frame!
Notwithstanding the centuries we’ve spent peering at, poking, prodding and penetrating the inner workings of plant cells with various types of microscopes and decades undertaking
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Functional significance of style length in Mertensia
Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae) is a spring-flowering perennial showing pronounced intraspecific variation in style length and stigma–anther separation. Forrest et al. show that population-level
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Botany: A Blooming History
Last night at 9pm hell froze over – the BBC broadcast a programme about plant taxonomy on a mainstream TV network. Did you see it? I thought
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Plants on the prowl
Plants are not noted for their dynamic lifestyles. Indeed, rooted in the soil as they tend to be, they are usually written off as little more
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Turnover of foliar N absorbed at different times
Although nitrogen turnover within plants has been studied intensively, the fate of N absorbed at different times and particularly over winter is not completely understood. Ueda
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ERECTA gene and leaf cellular development
<i>ERECTA</i> gene and leaf cellular development The ERECTA gene plays a role in the balance between epidermal cell expansion and
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Early summer and the hedgerows: elderflower champagne
Early summer brings the elderflower (Sambucus nigra, either a variable species or a species complex) into flower in hedgerows, woodland openings and waste ground throughout Europe.
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Cultivation and domestication of wild pea
Wild pea seed dormancy is mediated by a water-impermeable seed coat. Using wild and domesticated pea (Pisum elatius, P. humile and P. fulvum), Abbo et
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Say it with… fungi?
I’ve often thought it must be great to be remembered in a scientific binomial (but, as a botanist, it has to be a suitable plant)
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Evolution of oil-producing trichomes in Sisyrinchium
Flowers offering oil rewards to pollinators have evolved several times within Iridaceae, and oil-producing structures are particularly widespread in Sisyrinchium. Chauveau et al. conduct phylogenetic
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Genome jealousy
Image: Richard Wheeler/Wikimedia Commons. By way of a bit of an advertisement for the news site of another science organ – and to dispel any doubts
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Is the moss calyptra covered by a cuticle?
Over a century ago, the gametophytic calyptra was predicted to be covered by a cuticle that protects the sporophyte apex from desiccation. Budke et al. examine