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The ‘natural’ solution might not be best when your wildlife isn’t natural
Many ecosystems have been degraded or modified, and these are the sorts of systems you target for restoration. But when a system has been altered so
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Natural History for the Future of Ecology
Biosciences has a couple of free access papers out on Natural History. Natural History’s Place in Science and Society is a 17 author call for
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Revving up photosynthesis with nanotechnology – take that, greenhouse effect!
What happens when you insert single-walled carbon nanotubes into the leaves of Arabidopsis?
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Another bacterial trick to manipulate plant hormone-mediated responses
A novel example of a bacterial effector directly manipulating core regulators of hormone signaling to facilitate infection.
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Randy Olson on the ABT model
Scientists want to share their research and the public want to know what they’re up to but sometimes it doesn’t seem they share a
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Does your garden taste as good as it looks?
Bees in the UK have lost nearly all their natural habitat and gardens now provide a vital source of food, but gardeners are planting more exotic
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Auxin distribution and nitrate in rice roots
A study of rice cultivars with differing responsiveness to nitrate finds that initiation of lateral roots is only enhanced with higher responsiveness.
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The March 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now Free Access
The March 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now Free Access. The cover image is of two generations of moss, the younger sporophytes growing from
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The Importance of Access
Kevin Folta has put up a thought-provoking post on his blog, Illumination. There’s been a flurry of news stories around a new research paper
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Pavement cells, a living puzzle
Perhaps you enjoy solving jigsaw puzzles. Have you heard about living jigsaw puzzles? Imagine such a puzzle in which the individual pieces were not static but
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Células en la epidermis de la hoja: un rompecabezas viviente
Quizá te gusta resolver rompecabezas. ¿Has escuchado alguna vez sobre rompecabezas vivientes? Imagina un rompecabezas donde las piezas no permanecieran fijas sino que cambiaran constantemente. Lo
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Where do olives come from?
An analysis of patterns of genetic differentiation finds evidence of reciprocal gene exchanges between populations of Mediterranean and Saharan olives.