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Growth & Development

Do Thoreau’s observations and herbarium records see the same changes in fruiting?

Thoreau’s last manuscript could help understand the future climate of New England.

by Fi GennuApril 29, 2021April 29, 2021
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Close Encounters

Slippery flowers help deter nectar-stealing ants

A wax crystal coating causes ants to slip off, while hornet and bee pollinators can fly right in.

by Erin ZimmermanJanuary 12, 2021January 12, 2021
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Growth & Development

Leaf trichomes may avoid water stress in part by impeding gall formation

Trichomes seem to help prevent the larger gall types that lead to greater water loss.

by Erin ZimmermanMarch 18, 2020March 18, 2020
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Image: Robert A. Rohde/Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Temperature: getting it right

Have we been measuring temperature incorrectly all along?

by Nigel ChaffeyFebruary 18, 2014February 18, 2014
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Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

A new lotus effect..?

A new phenomenon that has been identified in the lotus – opening and closing of ‘central plate stomata’ regulates convective airflow within the lotus plant.

by Nigel ChaffeyNovember 28, 2013November 21, 2013
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Image: Kristian Peters/Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Relocation, relocation, relocation…

A study shows cold-induced organelle relocation in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, not only of chloroplasts, but nuclei and peroxisomes, too.

by Nigel ChaffeyOctober 17, 2013October 4, 2013
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Image: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen. Gera-Untermhaus, 1897.
Plant Cuttings

Phytonumeracy

by Nigel ChaffeyJanuary 31, 2013February 1, 2013
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Iridescent Tulip
Bite-sized Science

My favourite colour is structural colour

by Anne OsterriederJuly 11, 2012July 11, 2012
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  2. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

  3. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 18, 2023

    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

  4. Patrick Collins on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

  5. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    Hello Patrick, Thank you for taking th etim eto comment on this item. The source for 'catherine' that's stated in…

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