Cells, Genes & Molecules
Bloody plants! How soybean uses haemoglobins to obtain nitrogen
Excess nitrogen significantly accelerated nodule senescence and the production of green leghaemoglobin in nodules.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
New insights on the role of cytokinin in nodule formation
Cytokinins may have a role in controlling both bacterial accommodation and tissue differentiation related to nodule formation.
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How is flower diversity produced? Insights from Asarum
The core Heterotropa group was divided into nine subclades, each of which had a narrow geographic distribution.
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Microscopes and roots: investigating whether cell wall thickenings are phi (Φ) or “C” shaped
Noccaea caerulescens has some tricks that help it cope with heavy metals.
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Do plants use ‘expanding beams’ to build their cell walls?
Beams of homogalacturonan in plant cells could be creating peculiar the shapes of pavement cells.
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Spectacular speckles: silicon only disguises the signs of manganese toxicity in sunflowers and soybeans
Silicon is essential for string plants, but new research reveals that it can also hide evidence of poisoning in plants.
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Fields of yellow: getting the nutrient balance right in oilseed rape
How Brassica napus takes up phosphorus can also change how it takes up other nutrients.
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Control of masting may be epigenetic
Successive years of epigenetic marking may allow trees to ‘remember’ the conditions of the past few years.
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Balancing the battle: how oak trees defend against new pathogens
Population genetics may decide if oak can fight off infections it has never seen before.
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Can you find genetic echoes of an ancient ancestor in hornworts?
The genes hornworts share with other living plants may tell us something about their ancient common ancestor.
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Plants have two ways of giving directions to cell wall builders
When getting cellulose to the cell wall, plant cells don’t rely on just one set of directions.
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Will heather be lucky heather as carbon dioxide concentrations rise?
A rise in carbon dioxide could affect production of plant defences in unexpected ways.