Trees fight infections by trapping pathogens in one part of the tree. Hugh Morris and colleagues have been reviewing how trees use secondary metabolites in order to control the process.
Tag - parenchyma
Alun Salt
Final course: ‘Coffee’… *
Or, rather, something to ponder as you finish your meal, maybe with a coffee. Whatever your food(s) of choice, you need the right equipment – e.g. teeth – to cope with it (unless it’s a liquid or intravenously...
Nigel Chaffey
Rhythms written in the wood of tropical trees
Do tree rings mark the beating of the seasons over time, or is it more complicated than that?
Wood anatomy reveals the effects of climate change and phylogeny
Although the underlying phylogeny determines the qualitative wood structure, climate has a significant influence on the functional wood anatomy of Acacia. Warwick et al. use microscopy to investigate the structural...
botanyone
Secondary phloem diversity and evolution in Bignonieae
This study explores phloem evolution in the species-rich Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae) tribe.
