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Cress Kung-Fu
Cress seeds exude a nutrient for other plants into the soil, but is this a sneaky way of protecting the cress seedlings from competition?
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LAX2 modulates leaf lateral- vein symmetry and represses xylem development
This work opens a novel perspective for the study of vascular pattering in crops and its potential impact in the physiology of economically relevant plants.
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A transcriptome-based model for colour change in Lotus and emergence of bird pollination
Post-anthesis colour change (PACC) is widespread in the angiosperms. Yet we know little about how this trait operates at the molecular level. By comparing the
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Suppression of Brassica fungal pathogens by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
Novel forms of potentially antifungal linear fengycins may serve as a basis for the development of more powerful plant protective agents.
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Biogeographic pattern analysis using chloroplast genome SNP mining
Not only is the pool-seq method remarkably accurate in measuring SNP frequencies but it can also reveal new information that biogeographic studies of plant distributions cannot, namely data on the relative amount of effective dispersal across geographic barriers.
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Egg activation and actin-myosin dependent elongation of the Dictyota zygote
Male gametes need only 1 min to find the egg, fuse, induce homogenous cell wall secretion and start showing adhesive properties, underlying the role of the ECM as a fast sperm block in D. dichotoma.
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Temperature variability and wheat quality
Increased hot and cold spells resulting from climate change could affect bread-making quality or seed quality for growing subsequent wheat crops, depending upon when they occur.
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Floral scent variation in woodland stars
Reproductive traits important to coevolving interactions, such as the floral scent of L. bolanderi, may be more canalized than other traits important for plant fitness.
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Deep rooting in a wheat doubled haploid population with wild emmer introgression
This is the first study to identify QTLs for rooting at depth in field-grown wheat at mature growth stages.
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Unfavourable pollination environments promote evolution of a stable mixed reproductive system in angiosperms
Self-incompatible plants were less frequent in populations with consistently worse pollination environment, suggesting that reproductive assurance selects for selfing in these areas.
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Not For Your Eyes: Ultraviolet Patterns in Sunflowers
When you look at a sunflower you see gold. When an insect looks at a sunflower it sees something quite different.
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Early Arabidopsis root hair growth stimulation by pathogenic strains of Pseudomonas syringae
While the most common plant cell response to pathogens is growth arrest, root hair cells can perform the opposite reaction.