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The secret drivers of tree growth

Most trees live in symbiosis with fungi. Researchers show just how important this partnership is for tree growth through the first-ever comprehensive data analysis compiled for European forests on a massive scale.

Isabel01/02/2022

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Scientists Uncover the Distribution and Physiological Role of Planteose

Enzymatic hydrolysis of planteose: α-Galactosidase is a promising molecular target for root parasitic weed control.

Isabel31/01/2022

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Gene discovered crucial to making crop plants produce clonal seeds

Researchers have discovered a gene that will make it possible to produce seeds from crops that are genetically identical to the mother plant and that do not need pollination.

Isabel28/01/2022

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How plants respond to heat stress

Feeling the heat: Steroid hormones contribute to the heat stress resistance of plants. Plants, like other organisms, can be severely affected by heat stress. To increase their chances of survival, they activate the heat shock response, a molecular pathway also…

Isabel27/01/2022

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Leaving gaps in the genome to breed maize plants with low susceptibility to frost and drought damage

The use of genetic information is now indispensable for modern plant breeding. Even though DNA sequencing has become much cheaper since the human genome was decoded for the very first time in 2003, collecting the full genetic information still accounts…

Isabel26/01/2022

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The secret drivers of tree growth

Scientists Uncover the Distribution and Physiological Role of Planteose

Gene discovered crucial to making crop plants produce clonal seeds

How plants respond to heat stress

Leaving gaps in the genome to breed maize plants with low susceptibility to frost and drought damage

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