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Too much tubulin flips cell wall flexibility
Joseph Stinziano investigates how something you might find in jam controls how easily trees open or close access their leaves.
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Can a salad taste you back?
Normally when a headline asks a stupid question the answer is ‘no’, but new research suggests a better answer is ‘maybe’.
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The Hulk is Green, but is he Organic?
Scotland is to ban GMOs, because there’s more to GMOs than Science. It might sound good, but is it really a way to a more
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Hanging On To Your Date, Avoiding Incest And Not Getting Infected – All In A Day’s Work For Flowers Of The Mustard Family
Mustard plants have evolved clever cellular tricks to avoid “dating” their own pollen, using molecular signals to accept strangers and reject relatives.
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Life saving tobacco (with a mouse and virus assist)
Plants may be good for your health in your diet, but advances in science mean they may soon also be good for your health in other ways too.
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Maize seed ‘Feed me’ gene identified
Unlike ‘Audrey 2’ – the plant which ate members of the cast from ‘The Little Shop of Horrors’ (botanically suspect but with some good songs) – the maize
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Global Crop Diversity Trust to store wild relatives of food crops
The BBC reports on a plan to collect and store the wild plant relatives of essential food crops, including wheat, rice, and potatoes by the Global
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Silencing of tandem transgenes in potato
Silencing of tandem transgenes in potato Transgene expression stability is a critical point in applications of transgenic plants. Nocarova et al. study long-term changes in
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Wood-destroyer sequenced
The genome of the wood-degrading fungus Schizophyllum commune has been sequenced, offering insights into fungal biology and potential industrial applications.
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AM fungi and poplar growth on contaminated soil
AM fungi and poplar growth on contaminated soil Plant tolerance to stress can be improved by the presence of mycorrhiza. Cicatelli et al. study the response
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Lucky heather? No, clover!
A discovery echoes Jonathan Swift’s ideas of maximising agricultural yield and extracting more sunlight from plants.
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Chromosome region for high hydraulic conductance in rice
Chromosome region for high hydraulic conductance in rice The rate of photosynthesis in paddy rice, Oryza sativa, often decreases around noon on sunny days because of