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)?
Plant Cuttings
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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..?
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.
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,
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
Grow with the flow…
Results strongly suggest that cytoplasmic streaming is a key determinant of plant size.
Spotlight on macronutrients: Touchy-feely calcium…
Calcium (Ca) acts – amongst other things! – as a so-called ‘second messenger’, and participates in many processes of plant growth and development.
Spotlight on macronutrients: Stressed-out sulphur…
The presence of sulfur in seagrasses and coral can indicate stresses caused by oxygen-poor areas of the ocean floor, and global warming.
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