This is not something that we necessarily ask ourselves as we tuck into a lovely green salad, but maybe we should! Plants cannot move so they need to be resilient against stresses. To protect themselves they switch on a...
Sweet melons, Cucumis melo, are highly prized today; however, the lack of enthusiasm for melons in Mediterranean antiquity indicates that they did not possess the sugary sweetness of modern melons. Paris et al., through...