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Close Encounters Featured

An acceptable elitism? Getting the best out of nitrogen-fixing bacteria

Marcela Mendoza-Suárez and colleagues have a new tool to turbocharge legumes.

by Liam ElliottMay 3, 2020April 30, 2020
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Featured Growth & Development

Males become female when striped maples take a health hit

Above a certain trauma threshold, male trees had a high probability of becoming female, possibly in a bid to better their chances at reproduction.

by Erin ZimmermanMarch 24, 2020March 23, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Featured Plants & People

Aluminium-silicon interactions in higher plants: a brief personal history

How aluminium, silicon and two researchers are connected.

by Martin HodsonMarch 17, 2020March 17, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Featured

The Chemical Tools of Carnivorous Plants

Carnivorous plants need to manufacture a variety of specialised chemicals to lure, trap and digest prey.

by Fi GennuMarch 11, 2020March 16, 2020
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Featured Plants & People

Every little helps…

by Anne OsterriederMarch 8, 2020March 16, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Featured Growth & Development

Does Viagra really help preserve flowers?

It is said that sildenafil citrate can help preserve flowers. Here’s an experiment that you could do at home, but probably shouldn’t, to find out.

by Alun SaltFebruary 14, 2020April 9, 2020
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Conferences Featured

The Next Generation of Natural Historians

by Alun SaltFebruary 11, 2020February 13, 2020
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Featured Plants & People

Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?

by Karen L Bacon, Julie PeacockFebruary 3, 2020February 5, 2020
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Computational Models Featured Growth & Development

A new whole-plant framework simulates realistic water and carbon flow

CPlantBox generates a variety of 3D full plant architectures and accurately simulates water and carbon flow in the full plant.

by Rachel ShekarJanuary 21, 2020January 30, 2020
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Ecosystems Featured

Resource allocation trade-offs in a mast-seeding conifer

by William SalterJanuary 13, 2020January 20, 2020
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Close Encounters Featured

How does partnership work for a lichen in the Antarctic?

Lichens are partnerships between algae and fungi. In the Antarctic Lichens offer algae shelter against the cold, but also an uncertain future.

by Alun SaltDecember 18, 2019December 18, 2019
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Articles Featured

Plant Records : the (very, very, very) old pine tree

How old is OLD?

by Guillaume LobetDecember 9, 2019December 9, 2019
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Drosophyllum lusitanicum, the Portuguese Sundew
Cells, Genes & Molecules Ecosystems Featured

How important is meat to a curious carnivorous plant?

Drosophyllum lusitanicum, also known as the Portuguese sundew or dewy pine, is unusual even for carnivorous plants in that it lives in dry environments. Typically, carnivorous plants live in nutrient-poor wetlands, so does it really gain much from carnivory?

by Alun SaltNovember 27, 2019November 27, 2019
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Featured Plants & People

Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…

School lessons devoted to plants may be off-putting to those students who are already plant-averse. So, why not smuggle bits of plant information into lessons on topics as diverse as Geography, History, Art & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?

by Nigel ChaffeyNovember 20, 2019
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