A sweet story: modern sugarcanes originate from three ancestral genomes
New study identifies hybridisation and backcrossing events to have led to the modern sugarcane cultivars.
Plant Science from Cell Biology to Ecosystems
New study identifies hybridisation and backcrossing events to have led to the modern sugarcane cultivars.
New genomic study assembled the plastid genomes of plum yews to understand their evolution.
Martin and Issac quantified size-dependent variation in eight leaf traits in a single coffee genotype (Coffea arabica var. Caturra) in managed agroecosystems.
New study in New Phytologist reveals that nutrient-solubilising bacteria can travel on fungi hyphae if the fungi provides a source of energy.
Seedling establishment is a crucial bottleneck in plant population dynamics, but seedlings don’t behave the same way fully-grown trees do.
New mathematical model dissects how soybean plants might grow larger in the future.
New study the journal New Phytologist reveals the importance of soil microbial diversity for tolerating or recovering from drought, warming and nitrogen deposition.
New study suggests that rewetting peatland forests could increase their climate change mitigation function.
New study in the journal BMC Biology found that Mediterranean olives have almost as high genetic diversity as olive cultivars
The research suggests that different categories of species have dissimilar seed germination niches, which contributes to explaining their coexistence.
Study discovers the importance of light conditions and biosynthetic regulation of mixed-linkage glucan in oats.
The extent to which propagule pressure limits the establishment of local polyploid populations remains to be determined, because we know so little.