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Image: closeup of dandelion and its seeds blowing in the wind. Credit: Michael Schwarzenberger / Pixabay

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Understanding the deep relationship between plants and the wind

Researchers develop a model that analyzes the future survival of plants in a changing climate based on how far wind can carry a plant’s seeds.

Isabel29/12/2023

Image: In black and white: three fossil flowers from the Cretaceous (Glandulocalyx, Normanthus,Platydiscus; enlarged). In colour: four present-day species (Cymbidium, Primula,Hyacinthoides, and Passiflora). Credit: Julia Asenbaum.

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Floral Time Travel: Flowers Were More Diverse 100 Million Years Ago Than They Are Today

An team botanists has analyzed the morphological diversity of fossilized flowers and compared it with the diversity of living species. Their results were quite exciting: Flowering plants had already produced a large number of different flower types shortly after their…

Isabel28/12/2023

Arabidopsis_thaliana_root_growth_in_vitro Credit: Alena Kravchenko / Wikimedia

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Plants recruit distinct chemical activities of coumarins under different soil pHs

Iron is an essential micronutrient for plants and is generally found in large quantities in the Earth's crust. However, its availability to plants is highly dependent on the pH value of the soil. When suffering from iron deficiency, certain plant…

Isabel27/12/2023

Image: field of cereals with popies in close-up. Credit: 🌼Christel🌼 from Pixabay

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Flower power on Indian farms helps bees, boosts livelihoods

Planting flowers beside food crops on farms in India attracts bees, boosts pollination and improves crop yield and quality, researchers have found.

Isabel26/12/2023

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Researchers fill new final gaps in the Arabidopsis genome sequence

A new study unveils the intricate organization and regulation of ribosomal RNA genes within the complete nucleolus organizer regions (NORs) of Arabidopsis, the first plant with a fully sequenced genome. The research identifies over 70 gene subtypes distributed between NOR2…

Isabel22/12/2023

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Understanding the deep relationship between plants and the wind

Floral Time Travel: Flowers Were More Diverse 100 Million Years Ago Than They Are Today

Plants recruit distinct chemical activities of coumarins under different soil pHs

Flower power on Indian farms helps bees, boosts livelihoods

Researchers fill new final gaps in the Arabidopsis genome sequence

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