Genome duplications play a major role in the development of forms and structures of plant organisms and their changes across long periods of evolution. Heidelberg University biologists under the direction of Prof. Dr. Marcus ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2020
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A University of Wyoming researcher contributed to a paper that revealed extinction of plants in North America is more common than previously known.
Ecology
Sep 14, 2020
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Scientists have found that the tobacco plant Nicotiana can maintain grafts between a broad range of species. Using Nicotiana as an intermediary, they succeeded in indirectly grafting a tomato scion and a rootstock of Florist's ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 11, 2020
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Asterids comprise around 100,000 flowering plants, from heather to tomatoes. Up to now, their family relationships had not yet been fully clarified. A new study by the University of Bonn, Pennsylvania State University (U.S.) ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2020
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Long-tailed tits actively avoid harmful inbreeding by discriminating between the calls of close family members and non-family members, according to new research from the University of Sheffield.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2020
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Despite their important ecological role as decomposers, termites are often overlooked in research. Evolutionary biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have constructed a new ...
Evolution
Oct 17, 2019
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Limonoids are a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years.
Biotechnology
Aug 2, 2019
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If you've ever grown carrots in your garden and puzzled over never once seeing them flower, don't blame your lack of a green thumb.
Biotechnology
Jan 9, 2019
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Scientists from VIB and Ghent University under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Jenny Russinova have uncovered a novel mechanism in plants that controls an important decision step in stomatal lineage to divide asymmetrically or ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2018
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All plants require an adequate supply of inorganic nutrients, such as fixed nitrogen (usually in the form of ammonia or nitrate), for growth. A special group of flowering plants thus depends on close symbiotic relationships ...
Biotechnology
May 25, 2018
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