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Heteroblasty, crowding and shade avoidance Acacia implexa shows leaf heteroblasty, developing compound, transitional and modified leaves (phyllodes), and previous experiments have shown that shade can alter
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Mechanical perturbation of Arabidopsis Mechanical perturbation is known to inhibit elongation of the inflorescence stem of Arabidopsis thaliana but little is known of its effects on
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Image: portrait of the 31-year-old Charles Darwin by George Richmond, 1840. If – apparently like me – you nodded off a little during 2009’s Darwin
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Disproving a C4 reversion in Eragrostis Eragrostis walteri (Poaceae), a grass with C3 foliar anatomy in an otherwise C4 genus and subfamily, has long been thought
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Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Enzymes are essential to life as we understand it on Earth. But once they’ve participated in whatever reactions they’
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Helical cell wall thickenings in Aspleniaceae Extraxylary helical cell wall thickenings (HCWTs) in vascular plants are not well documented. Leroux et al. study their occurrence and
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High-resolution proxies for wood microdensitometry Density is a crucial variable in forest and wood science, but gravimetric methods of measurement are mostly destructive and time-
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Image: Robert Ricker, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Encouraging students to face their fears and take up the challenge of confronting scientific names (no longer
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Seed of alpine plants are short-lived in storage Alpine ecosystems are considered as being particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Mondoni et al.
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Image: Paul the Octopus, Wikimedia Commons. Sadly, Paul – the ‘fortune-telling octopus’ – is no more, but since his exploits during football’s World Cup last summer,
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Radial O2-loss barrier induction and arenchyma formation Many wetland species form both aerenchyma and a barrier to radial oxygen loss (ROL) in roots, which enhance