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Unwinding the Cucumber Tendril Mystery
This video from a recent Science Friday finds a cucumber doing something truly bizarre. What happens when you grab a coiled cucumber tendril and pull it?
Raindrops keep falling on my…
For anyone intrigued by this brief article recently in Science, the full paper can be found free online at our website.
August Image: Apple Stigma
This month the inset cover image shows a detail of the stigma of a flower of apple, Malus × domestica. The acquisition of stigmatic receptivity is concomitant with secretion of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs, strained green) into the intercellular spaces between cell walls (blue).
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