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Integrating maths and plant science to explain how plant roots generate a hormone gradient

A research team that developed a biosensor that first recorded that a distinct gradient of the plant growth hormone gibberellin correlated with plant cell size has now revealed how this distribution pattern is created in roots.

Isabel24/02/2021

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How Climate Caprices can Trigger Plants

Climate change may challenge organismal responses through not only extreme cues. An uncommon combination of benign cues – warm and short days – can also trigger reactions such as misregulations of leaves.

Isabel23/02/2021

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Dipterocarpaceae trees threatened by deforestation and climate change

Ecologists develop models that identify major threats to a dominant tree family in the Philippines. Already reduced by deforestation, climate change is set to further undermine their survival.

Isabel22/02/2021

Agriculture News Plant Science

Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?

Researchers grow structures made of wood-like plant cells in a lab, hinting at the possibility of more efficient biomaterials production. Still in its early stages, the idea is akin in some ways to cultured meat — an opportunity to streamline…

Isabel19/02/2021

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World’s largest opinion survey on climate change: Majority call for wide-ranging action

The results of the Peoples’ Climate Vote, the world's biggest ever survey of public opinion on climate change are published in January. Covering 50 countries with over half of the world's population, the survey includes over half a million people under the age of 18, a key constituency on climate change that…

Isabel18/02/2021

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Integrating maths and plant science to explain how plant roots generate a hormone gradient

How Climate Caprices can Trigger Plants

Dipterocarpaceae trees threatened by deforestation and climate change

Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?

World’s largest opinion survey on climate change: Majority call for wide-ranging action

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