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Go Fungal!
It’s a belated present, the PDF of the handout we’ve been using on stands for Botany One.
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Can plants fast forward to the future to show us what will happen as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases?
A new analysis suggests that long-term, multi-generational response of plants to rising CO2 are similar to those found in single generation FACE experiments, with consequences for continued global greening and future higher rates of photosynthesis.
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Researching Pollen Illuminating the Invisible
For many people, pollen means nose itching and eyes watering – but it is so much more. It is the reason we have food on our plates, and flowers around us. When pollen forms abnormally or degenerates, it is unable to generate new life through the production of a seed. Many factors can affect pollen d
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Waking up to respiration: leaf respiration in the light alters our interpretation of ecosystem carbon fluxes
In plants, respiration is usually inhibited in the light compared to the dark. Measuring respiration in the light is particularly difficult, because photosynthesis and photorespiration are
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Call for Papers: Plant growth modelling and applications to agro-ecology and plant phenotyping
We owe plants our oxygen, our food, our medicines, our furniture and clothing and the enjoyment of our natural environment. As a consequence, plant scientists have
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New CO2 microsensor reveals old secrets of plants
We have constructed a new CO2 microsensor with a tip diameter as small as the thinnest of human hairs. This new microsensor can be positioned in plant tissues in controlled laboratory experiments as well as in the field, and has already revealed some old secrets of submerged aquatic plants.
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Synthetic auxin resistance in wild radish is still an enigma
Guest author Danica Goggin finds wild radish is a problem weed in many agricultural regions. It is also very good at concealing its herbicide resistance strategies from inquisitive researchers. But with the introduction of synthetic auxin-resistant transgenic crops in North America, we need to keep
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Orchid seeks the most passionate pollinators
It’s not enough to mimic a female – you have to do it well.
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The first footholds for land plants may have been much smaller than imagined
A polysaccharide found in the cell walls of land plants has now been found outside the cell. This chemical, Xyloglucan, could be one of clues as to how plants moved onto land.
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The rewards of chasing nectar
We know that flowers entice pollinators with nectar, but how much and what causes a flower to produce as much or as little nectar as it does. In this guest post, Amy Parachnowitsch, Jessamyn Manson and Nina Sletvold introduce their review of the topic, which you can get free from the Annals of Botan
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LEGO’s new sustainable plastic plants are made from plants, but are they green?
From August 1 2018, LEGO will begin distribution of the company’s first set of sustainable bricks, “Plants from Plants”, in the form of botanical elements,
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Amaranthus tricolor: eat your greens (and reds and purples)
While leafy green vegetables are wilting under the summer heatwave, the drought and heat tolerant leafy vegetable, amaranth, provides a nutritious alternative.