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2016 Plant Science Round Up

Another fantastic year of discovery is over – read on for our 2016 plant science top picks! January A Zostera marina meadow in the Archipelago Sea, southwest Finland. Image credit: Christoffer Boström (Olsen et al., 2016. Nature). The year began…

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Genome editing: an introduction to CRISPR/Cas9

Dr Damiano Martignago, Rothamsted Research This week’s blog post was written by Dr Damiano Martignago, a genome editing specialist at Rothamsted Research. Genome editing technologies comprise a diverse set of molecular tools that allow the targeted modification of a…

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Aquaporins capable of functioning as all-in-one osmotic systems

Dr Caitlin Byrt, University of Adelaide This week’s post was written by Dr Caitlin Byrt, University of Adelaide, whose research focuses the roles of water-channeling proteins – aquaporins – and ion transport in plants. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that…

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Battening down the hatches: priming plant defense

This week’s blog post was written by Dr. Mike Roberts (Lancaster University, UK). Dr. Mike Roberts, Lancaster University, UK, Mike with an experiment to test the effects of parental herbivory on defense priming in the next generation of Arabidopsis plants.…

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