A microscopic investigation of fibre development in Cannabis sativa
Can electron microscopy techniques provide new insights into the development of primary phloem fibres in hemp?
Category: Cells, Genes & Molecules
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.
Fluorescence imaging reveals the colourful phenolic world of Parma violet
Can fluorescence microscopy be used as a rapid tool to quantitatively assess the phenolic profiles of living plant tissues?
Predicting rice yield under drought
Integrated growth and metabolic models predict the metabolism of rice growth under normal and water-limited conditions.
Wheat adaptation to climate change
Models fill in the data gaps to identify genotypes to maximize yield across the NE Australian wheat-belt under climate change.
Does investigating the seed coat in Gnetum gnemon reveal how fruiting plants evolved?
Gnetales are a puzzle. They look like the closest relatives to angiosperms, the fruiting plants. But when you examine their genes, they appear to be distant. An investigation into the development of their seed coats might explain some of the mystery.
Modeling the circadian clock
A novel circadian clock model based on real-world clocks delivers simplicity, entrainment, reliability, and accuracy.
The roles of melatonin in soybean drought tolerance
Could the exogenous application of melatonin help to improve tolerance to drought stress in crop plants?
Identifying biomarkers for low phosphorus tolerance in soybean
Can a better understanding of proteomic responses to low phosphorus conditions be harnessed to improve future soybean varieties?
The wonders of mixing and matching pigments and colourful flowers
A review in The Biochemist draws attention to the importance of flower pigments to help plants cope with environmental stresses.
Plant chemicals are more important in carnivory than previously thought
Plant carnivory, at the metabolic level, likely evolved from at least two distinct functions–attraction and defence.
The reason domesticated lentils are fussy about their lighting is in their genes
A comparison with wild lentils highlights how gene expression varies when light shifts from red to near infra-red light.
Plants can become less uniform by duplicating their genome
Though the experiment was limited to two genotypes of a single species, these findings support the idea that whole genome duplication can indeed increase plasticity.
The broken remains of pectin give clues to the culprit
By tracking how cell walls were loosened, a team has been able to show which enzyme is helping fruit ripen.