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Fire and germination in a tropical savanna
Are seeds using heat from fires as a signal to end physical dormancy and germinate?
Now rice has more options to cope with flooding.
When waters rise, should a rice plant shut down and conserve energy till it can breathe again – or should it grow faster to get above the water? New research has produced rice that can do both.
Loss of RNA integrity precedes loss of viability in dry-stored seeds
You can see how time affects germination, by measuring the proportion of seeds that germinate after time. But is there a way of examining seed viability without germinating them?
When a plant loses photosynthesis, what else does it lose?
One of the common features of plants they make their own food. But what happens inside a plant when they stop making their food and eat something else?
How to break down cell walls in sugarcane
One way of improving the usefulness of a plant crop might come not from studying where the plant cells grow, but where they die.
The hidden diversity of Pitcairnia lanuginosa
Pitcairnia lanuginosa might look similar wherever you find it in South America, but hidden inside are some differences that can tell a tale about its past.
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