The Chemical Lives of Trees: Why No Two Are Exactly Alike
Individual trees carry their own chemical signatures and they may be rewriting the rules of how ecosystems work.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
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A rare plant with a taste for toxic soil is getting some help from unexpected allies with green fingers
Czech gardeners helped protect an endangered flower from extinction using their backyards. The simple trick could aid plant conservation worldwide.
The Surprising Way Plants Really Sense Heat
The sweet molecules plants make during photosynthesis double as sophisticated thermometers, revealing a hidden layer of plant environmental sensing.
Caterpillars Deploy Molecular Sabotage Against Plants
Scientists have discovered caterpillars inject chemical weapons into plants that shut down defences before they can even form.
Why won’t your African Violets stay the same colour?
Your colour-changing African violets aren’t misbehaving. They’re using sophisticated molecular switches that regulate their genes.
The genetic prison that traps a ghost plant
Why would you make leaves that are all cost and no benefit? A ghost plant puzzle is solved.
A Pathway to Salt-Tolerant Crops in a Changing Climate
A new metabolic model identifies the genetic basis of salt stress resilience in plants.
How do plants respond to hormone signals instead of cellular noise
You might expect the instructions a cell receives to make a flower to be precise, but the response to those instructions isn’t.
What were root genes doing before they started building roots?
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
How Buriti Seeds Survive Floods and Droughts
Buriti seeds may be sensitive to drying out, but a thorough analysis of their anatomy and physiology reveals surprising resilience to water stress.
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