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Newly Identified Gene Reduces Pollen Number of Plants

Producing fewer sperm cells can be advantageous in self-fertilizing plants. An international study has identified a gene in the model plant Arabidopsis that reduces the number of pollen. In addition to supporting the evolutionary theory, these findings could help to…

Isabel07/07/2020

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Bees? Please. These plants are putting ants to work

In a world first, researchers have discovered a plant that has successfully evolved to use ants—as well as native bees—as pollinating agents by overcoming their antimicrobial defenses.

Isabel06/07/2020

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Plant detectives develop new way to trace global spread of major plant disease

A team of scientists has developed a way to potentially thwart the spread of a disease-causing bacterium that harms more than 100 plant species worldwide, an advance that could save the nursery industry billions a year.

Isabel03/07/2020

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How a Molecular “Alarm” System in Plants Protects Them from Predators

Some plants, like soybean, are known to possess an innate defense machinery that helps them develop resistance against insects trying to feed on them. However, exactly how these plants recognize signals from insects has been unknown until now. Scientists uncover…

Isabel02/07/2020

ASPB News Plant Science

How to build better highways in plants

As a plant grows, it moves cellular material from its version of manufacturing sites to the cell wall construction zone. Transporter proteins, called motor proteins, are thought to move these cell wall cargo via a complex highway system made up…

Isabel01/07/2020

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Newly Identified Gene Reduces Pollen Number of Plants

Bees? Please. These plants are putting ants to work

Plant detectives develop new way to trace global spread of major plant disease

How a Molecular “Alarm” System in Plants Protects Them from Predators

How to build better highways in plants

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