Cadmium is a non-biodegradable and easily absorbed, translocated and accumulated element in plant tissues. This means that it is highly available to plant root systems and can be toxic even at low concentrations...
Light is indispensable for photosynthetic organisms, but excess light energy causes damage in photosystems and readily leads to cell death in severe environments such as Antarctica. Kosugi et al. determine reaction...
In river valleys of the world’s driest desert (The Atacama of South America) large stands of giant horsetail ( Equisetum giganteum) are found to tolerate soil water salinity up to at least half that of seawater. This...
I owe thanks to Dr Andrej Pavlovič for being a patient guinea pig with my first press-release (you can find it on Science Daily) and to Lizzie Shannon-Little at OUP for helping put it out. It’s good timing because...