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How trees communicate via a Wood Wide Web

This week's post was originally published on The Conversation, and was written by Stuart Thompson, University of Westminster. A new book, The Hidden Life of Trees, claims that trees talk to one another. But is this really the case? The…

Isabel10/10/2016

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1000 Plants

The 1000 plants initiative (1KP) is a multidisciplinary consortium aiming to generate large-scale gene sequencing data for over 1000 species of plants. Included in these species are those of interest to agriculture and medicines, as well as green algae, extremophytes…

Isabel30/09/2016

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Cassava brown streak: lessons from the field

This week’s post was written by Katie Tomlinson, a PhD student at the University of Bristol, UK, who spent three months as an intern at the National Crops Resource Research Institute in Uganda. She fills us in on the important…

Isabel18/09/2016

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In Nature Plants: Come together

This post is republished with permission from Nature Plants. Science is not a solo endeavour but a social one, and the most social part is conference attendance. Regardless of their other strengths and weaknesses, scientific meetings are critical for encouraging…

Isabel08/09/2016

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Interview with Dr. Winfried Peters: Bringing forgotten ideas on plant biomechanics into the 21st century

This week we spoke to Dr. Winfried S. Peters from Indiana University/Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). His research mainly focuses on the biomechanics of plant cells, which led him to take a second look at some of the ideas of…

Isabel02/09/2016

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