Plant Cuttings
Something fishy in the veggie patch…
Omega FA-enriched fish in GM-enhanced camelina oil could be a new non-marine source of fatty acids.
Plant Cuttings
Plants, the inside story
Flowering plants devoid of leaves, roots, shoots and some without chloroplast DNA. Are they really plants? Discuss!
Plant Cuttings
Sugar versus Auxin: which is dominant?
Of the plethora of aspects of plant growth and development that the hormone (OK, plant growth regulator…) auxin is implicated in/involved with (e.g. embryo
Plant Cuttings
Dodgy photos dog phytology
The normally genteel world of botanical research has been shaken, stirred and shocked to its very core by a retraction of a paper.
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The trees have it…
Tons of alternative tree uses! Trees, helping to make the world an even more amazing place.
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Colourfully cunning cryptoflorigraphic conundrum
Stephen Bax has now claimed to have begun to decipher the Voynich manuscript and suggests it is probably a treatise on nature.
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An explosive mix: C4, C3, C2 and CCM
How many more variants exist amongst the 325,000 species of flowering plants (let alone all the algae and other members of the plant kingdom)?
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Cause for optimism (maybe not…)
There’s an insufficiency of people to grow the new crops that aren’t being identified because of the dearth of plant taxonomists. Where will it all end..?
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One of a kind…
Rare and monotypic Amborella is probably the living – extant – flowering plant closest evolutionarily to the first true member of the angiosperm group.
Plant Cuttings
A day in the life…
The Node’s ‘a day in the life of a …’ series is designed to give insights into the working of the labs – and the people – that try to unravel development,
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Plant Cell – all change at the top
The ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists) has named Professor Sabeeha Merchant as the next Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell
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Grow with the flow…
Results strongly suggest that cytoplasmic streaming is a key determinant of plant size.