Field experiment shows that competition for light is the key mechanism driving loss of plant diversity under eutrophication and lack of grazing.
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Eurekalert
Dale Maylea
Spring is coming a week earlier to European forests
Botanists found evidence for the effects of climate change stored in herbaria.
Alun Salt
Modelling plant morphology: heteroblasty in epiphytic bromeliads
Self-shading may explain heteroblasty, a sudden change in form found in many angiosperms.
botanyone
Iridoplasts, out of the shadows at last
Why can you find colourful plants, where they're hardest to see? Iridoplasts, an overlooked plastid, improve photosynthesis and look great while doing it.
Nigel Chaffey
The Understorey – 7th April 2013
A summary of the last week from The Understorey: How to make your tomato live forever. The Plant Actin Cytoskeleton Responds to Signals from Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns. A recent paper...
AJ Cann
