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The Delicate Water Lily: A Rose by Another Name?

Genome Duplication Events May Have Contributed to Floral Scent Biosynthesis and Other Traits of Early-diverged Flowering Plants

Isabel16/01/2020

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New methods promise to speed up development of new plant varieties

A research team recently developed new methods that will make it significantly faster to produce gene-edited plants. They hope to alleviate a long-standing bottleneck in gene editing and, in the process, make it easier and faster to develop and test…

Isabel15/01/2020

Forestry News Plant Health

Pine trees with larger resin ducts better able to survive mountain pine beetle attack

A new study shows that lodgepole pine trees with larger resin ducts survived beetle attacks that killed trees with smaller ducts. Located in the needles, branches, trunk and roots, the ducts act like highways to carry sticky, toxic resin to…

Isabel14/01/2020

Agriculture News Plant Science

Sorghum domestication illuminates relationship between humans, crops and the environment

A new study that examines the genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa’s most reviled bird species illustrates how human genetics, crops and the environment influence one another in the process of plant domestication.

Isabel10/01/2020

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New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate change-ready

Botanists from have discovered that “penny-pinching” evergreen species such as Christmas favourites, holly and ivy, are more climate change-ready in the face of warming temperatures than deciduous “big-spending” water consumers like birch and oak. As such, they are more likely…

Isabel09/01/2020

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The Delicate Water Lily: A Rose by Another Name?

New methods promise to speed up development of new plant varieties

Pine trees with larger resin ducts better able to survive mountain pine beetle attack

Sorghum domestication illuminates relationship between humans, crops and the environment

New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate change-ready

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