Image library of plant tissues
Looking for pictures of plant anatomies? Check it the rich image library of plant pictures from the Berkshire Community College.
Category: Cells, Genes & Molecules
Guided tour of plant anatomies
If you are looking for a guided tour in the world of plant anatomies, search no more and check out the Twitter threads from Adrien Luyckx, from UCLouvain.
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.
Attracting bees is not always a smooth process for plants
Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees.
An emerging field in Plant Science: Plant Synthetic Biology takes the stage in Barcelona
Michela Osnato talks to Dr. Jae-Seong Yang and Dr. Ivan Reyna-Llorens about their recent Plant Synthetic Biology conference in Barcelona.
Plants remember how much warmer than usual it was last year
Stress memories using epigenetics are helping plants adapt to climate change.
How does it feel?
Plants might not feel pain as such, but they need a way to get damage signals around their body. A new study uncovers some of the process.
Plant hormones to help prevent Striga invasion
Blocking the biosynthesis of canonical strigolactones by TIS108, a specific enzyme inhibitor, significantly lowered Striga infestation without affecting rice growth.
Botanists discover not all clones are the same, it depends on how you make them
A study of Paspalum species native to South America shows that while clones can expand a plant’s range, the method a parent uses to clone itself will impact how the population develops.
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
Less Is More When Plants Call for Aid
Scientists find that reducing fertilizer input to a field can help plants call for assistance when fighting off herbivores.
Machine learning used to identify transcription factor-DNA interactions
Surveying machine learning methods to improve detection of binding sites.