Carnivorous plants need to manufacture a variety of specialised chemicals to lure, trap and digest prey.
Category - Cells, Genes & Molecules
Fi Gennu
Delayed aluminium exclusion in signal grass is energy-dependent
The mechanism requires a day or two from exposure to exclude the metal from the intracellular compartment.
Erin Zimmerman
Expression of the sesame MYB transcription factor SiMYB305 boosts tolerance to drought and salt stress in Arabidopsis
Improving crop tolerance to environmental stresses is of paramount importance to global food security. To protect themselves from abiotic stress, plants translate environmental inputs into internal signals through...
William Salter
The SAUR41 subfamily of genes is involved in cell expansion and salt tolerance
The SAUR41 genes are ABA inducible and active during seedling establishment.
Rice chloroplasts become more spherical under salt stress
Though the cause isn’t clear, the chloroplasts may be reacting to carbon dioxide or light levels.
Decoding Soybean Nodulation
A new framework aids in predicting gene regulatory networks associated with soybean nodule formation.
Rachel Shekar
Repetitive DNA is not behind genome size variation in Anacyclus
Plant genome size (GS) varies widely – by as much as a factor of 2500 in land plants alone. Outside of genome duplication (polyploidy), repetitive DNA is thought to be the main contributor to this variation. However...
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.
Alun Salt
Decrypting the tubby-like protein gene family in cassava
Dong et al. identify and characterise the cassava TLP gene family, MeTLP, at the genomic level.
Gene copy number is associated with phytochemistry in Cannabis sativa
THCA and CBDA were thought to have a simple mode of inheritance; however, a recent study by Vergara et al. describes that in fact multiple gene copies are involved in their production.
Distribution of Veronica polyploids is influenced by both habitat differentiation and historic glaciation
Species with higher ploidy levels prefer cooler, wetter habitats than diploids.
Sweetcorn a better target than other maizes for Zinc biofortification
Earlier consumption and less processing makes sweetcorn a better source of dietary zinc.
Early Lateral Root Development Is Driven by Thirst
Roots are critical for plants to find water and nutrients. They can also be expensive to grow, so a plant needs to send them in the right direction. How do they do this? A new paper by Daniel von Wangenheim and...
Dale Maylea
Lichen algae remodel their cell walls in response to drying
Lichen algae respond to desiccation with both a controlled collapse of their cell walls and a bit of biochemical remodelling.
