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Category - Journals
Eurekalert
Dale Maylea
To make a fine wine, you need to kill some dinosaurs
The event that killed off the dinosaurs had a huge impact on the Vitaceae family, the plant family that includes the wine grape.
Renata Cantoro
Better sex doesn’t lead to better reproduction for a Balearic Arum
Botanists have found disturbance can increase pollination and seed set for an Arum on Mallorca. So why isn't that good news for the plant?
Alun Salt
Improving crop modeling using machine learning
Integration of machine learning and crop modelling can optimize predictions of plant growth and yield.
Rachel Shekar
Modelling pollen competition
Identification of traits affecting pollen performance
New open source software for identifying candidate genes
Introducing cageminer, an R/Bioconductor package to prioritize candidate genes by integrating GWAS and gene coexpression networks
Simulating red:far red ratio in your model
The best method depends on your goal, need for accuracy, and computing allowance
How will plant communities respond to climate change?
Functional-structural plant modelling is the key to predicting how plant communities will respond to climate change.
Effects of deer exclusion on plant recovery in dune ecosystems after a severe coastal storm
The dunes of barrier islands erode during storm events but they also prevent damage to inland ecosystems. For these dunes to function in this way, vegetation recovery between storm events is essential. Characteristic of...
William Salter
MARSHAL, a novel tool for modeling root system hydraulics
A new computational tool couples a root architecture model with fast and accurate algorithms of water flow through hydraulic architectures and plant-scale parameter calculations.
How do you combine simplicity and realism in plant models?
Parsimony and biological reality are often seen as antagonistic goals in plant modelling. Hammer and colleagues argue that isn't always the case, and combining the two approaches could bring benefits to scientists as...
Aconitum offers bees more nectar to carry its toxic pollen
Male flowers of Aconitum protect their pollen by adding alkaloids. Without pollen as a reward, botanists asked how the flower compensated pollinators.
The contrasting effects of climate change-induced drought on three temperate tree species
Climate change-induced drought has already contributed to increased plant mortality around the globe, including in forest ecosystems. Drought events are projected to become even more frequent in forests in the future...
UV light can guide flies to an Utterly Voracious plant
Students at Augustana University have found out how insects see carnivorous plants by building on each other's work in a series of projects.
