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Image: Ptilotus senarius grows in such a remote part of Australia it's a miracle it was rediscovered at all. Credit: Aaron Bean/inaturalist.org/observations/288434421

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No longer extinct, just critically endangered

Citizen science platforms including iNaturalist are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work of scientists.

Isabel24/02/2026

Image: Field Museum scientist Matt von Konrat examining dried moss collected in 2013 in a botanical survey as part of a homicide investigation. Credit: courtesy of Field Museum.

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Solving mysteries with moss

New paper examines the history of using moss as evidence in forensic cases.

Isabel19/02/2026

Image credit: The research team has subjected the leaves near the fruit to the technique of near and mid-infrared spectroscopy. Credit: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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A new technique predicts the ripeness of fruit by analysing leaves

A new method analyses the biochemical changes in the leaves closest to the fruit without damaging it.

Isabel16/01/2026

Image: The motor protein mediates salt tolerance via a Na⁺ transport pathway in Arabidopsis. Credit: Haiyang Liu from Waseda University, Japan

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A Key Molecular Target for Salt-Tolerant Crops

Salt stress is a major factor that impairs plant growth and yield. Researchers have revealed that Arabidopsis thaliana myosin XI-1 significantly regulates adaptation to salt stress via intracellular sodium ion (Na⁺) homeostasis. It can thus serve as a promising molecular…

Isabel07/01/2026

Image: The Ottelia alismoides. Credit: FU Wenlong

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Unique aquatic plant has three concurrent CO₂-concentrating mechanisms

A new study has identified a unique trait in the aquatic plant Ottelia alismoides that it can simultaneously employ three distinct CO₂-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs). This finding provides new insights into how these pathways, long considered incompatible within the same plant tissue, can operate concurrently.

Isabel26/12/2025

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