ssODNs are capable of inducing protection against pathogens through the activation of defence genes and promotion of stomatal closure.
Tag - DNA
Fi Gennu
Breeding system diversification and evolution in Poa
Species of Poa show an exceptional diversity in breeding systems represented by the occurrence of hermaphroditism to dioecism, with gynomonoecy very frequent among species in South America. Giussani et al. contribute to...
botanyone
A real CRISPR look at heritable mutations
Genome editing technologies have become valuable tools in many aspects of scientific research, facilitating, for example, the identification of genes involved in development, or the determination of protein functions...
Jess Upson
Farming in the DNA
Archaeology shows that farming spread across Europe from the Middle East. For Europeans, farming started in the Fertile Crescent in the Levant, Turkey and Iraq around 8-9,000 BC. It spread into SE Europe around 6,500 BC...
Alun Salt
Bloody royal French gourd debunked
One of the most unusual plant-based items that has come to my notice recently is this rather ‘quirky’ item that sheds a forensic botany light on an episode of ‘regicide à la française’ when King Louis XVI had an...
Nigel Chaffey
Crocus, saffron-omics and the highest value crop
Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop with sustainability, cultural and social values, and high labour...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
CSI Evidential Botanicals, Episode 2: CSI Amphorae
Taking the whole evidence-gathering issue back many hundreds of years now to an age before cookery books (cookery, a TV-obsession in the UK…). Amongst their other interesting findings, Brendan Foley et al. (Journal of...
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: A series on PlantCellBiology.com from Anne Osterrieder
Anne Osterrieder has a new series on her blog called Faces of plant cell biologists, where we are asked a series of questions. So far, it has featured Charlotte Carroll (also an AoBBlog.com guest author here), Chris...
