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Some plant tissues move like animal muscles but long after death
Even being dead doesn’t stop a scarious bract from protecting its florets. It still works even after a serious mechanical damage, as long as at least a strip, a few cell layers thick, remains intact.
Why we shouldn’t take seeds for granted
Seeds are the main resource for growing plants to restore degraded areas. But are there enough seeds of wild species to meet the global demand?
Amborella trichopoda helps reveal features of the first flowering plants
It’s difficult to peer into the past to see the first flowering plant, but Charlie Scutt shows how an ancestor in the modern-era provides some clues as to what it looked like.
Black-grass: the farmer’s nemesis
Visit an arable farm in England, particularly in its central and Southern parts, and ask the farmer what their number one problem is on their farm. They will most likely tell you it is black-grass.
Facts, alternative facts and ‘Plant Facts Week’
For Joe Friday, it was enough to ask for “just the facts, ma’am.”* But do the facts help science communication?
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