How do plants hedge their bets?
In some environments there is no way for a seed to know for sure when the best time to germinate is.
In some environments there is no way for a seed to know for sure when the best time to germinate is.
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2021
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As a pioneer plant of the mobile and semi-mobile sand dunes in arid and semi-arid region, Agriophyllum squarrosum, also called "sand rice", is a folk Mongolian medicine with pleiotropic pharmacological and ecological economic ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2021
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Researchers have developed a new concept to explain the phenomenon known as Green Sahara. They demonstrate that a permanent vegetation cover in the Sahara was only possible under two overlapping rainy seasons. Dr. Enno Schefuß ...
Earth Sciences
May 31, 2021
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Rubisco is arguably the most abundant—and most important—protein on Earth. This enzyme drives photosynthesis, the process that plants use to convert sunlight into energy to fuel crop growth and yield. Rubisco's role is ...
Biotechnology
May 24, 2021
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In today's plants, photorespiration dissipates some of the energy produced by photosynthesis and releases CO2. It begins when the enzyme RuBisCO acts on oxygen instead of carbon dioxide and creates toxic side-products requiring ...
Biotechnology
May 18, 2021
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Indigenous people have lived in the Bears Ears region of southeastern Utah for millennia. Ancestral Pueblos built elaborate houses, check dams, agricultural terraces and other modifications of the landscape, leaving ecological ...
Ecology
May 18, 2021
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The first frost of autumn may be grim for gardeners but the latest evidence reveals it is a profound event in the life of plants.
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2021
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In an interdisciplinary research project carried out at Tel Aviv University, researchers from the School of Plant Sciences affiliated with the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences collaborated with their colleagues from ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 28, 2021
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A small-branched shrub found in India known locally as Moddu Soppu (Justicia wynaadensis) is used to make a sweet dish during the monsoon season by the inhabitants of Kodagu district in Karanataka exclusively during the monsoons. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2021
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The mechanism by which the plant hormone cytokinin controls cell division has been discovered—a breakthrough that significantly improves our understanding of how plants grow.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 25, 2021
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