Author: zooplantman
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Deer Proven Good For Forest Biodiversity (Yet Again)
A decades-long study of national parks in Ireland has found that grazing deer in oak woodlands is actually good for diversity and helps prevent some plants from taking over the valuable ecosystem.
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A Century Needed To Recreate Biodiversity On Old Farm Sites
Old chalk grasslands that have been disturbed by farming can take more than a hundred years to recover their full diversity of plants, new research shows.
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Seedless Mango? Heaven or Abomination?
But, then, no longer will one be able to utter this Indian homily: “Aam khana hai ya gutli gin ni hai” losely translated as “Do you want to eat mangoes or count the seeds” but in reality meaning ‘Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’. And, there are many who will lament being denied the pleasure of licking the seed clean of the fruit.
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Safely Eating Toxic Plants With Help From Microbe Friends
Here, we demonstrate that gut microbes are crucial in allowing herbivores to consume toxic plants.
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Do Sunflowers Track the sun or remember where it ought to be?
βIt brings into question whether there’s some sort of memory that’s found within the plant that allows this regulation,β
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“World’s Worst Weed” Once Staple Of Ancient People
Even when farming developed in the area 7,000 years later, people were still munching on nutsedge. But at some point, the root it lost its charm. By the 1970s, botanists branded purple nutsedge as “the world’s worst weed” in a book of the same name. “They listed it as being a problem in 92 countries and 52 different crops,”
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Flowers Giving Up On Bees. Evolution In Action
Whether the reversion towards self-fertilisation can provide an escape route from ecological bee shortages depends on how rapidly plants can evolve. In the current pollinator crisis, understanding how plants adapt to changes in bee numbers and type is essential.
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Tree’s Seeds Shown As Effective Low Cost Water Purifier
Seeds of Moringa oliefera, commonly known as Sehjan or drumsticks, have the potential to remove impurities from contaminated water and make it safe for drinking
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South American lichen found to have 126 different species of fungi
A team of researchers with members from the U.S. and several South American countries has found that a type of lichen that grows in several parts of Central and South America consists of at least 126 species of fungi and possibly as many as 400.
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Neandertal Diet Included Vegetables
The popular conception of the Neanderthal as a club-wielding carnivore is, well, rather primitive, according to a new study conducted at MIT. Instead, our prehistoric cousin may have had a more varied diet that, while heavy on meat, also included plant tissues, such as tubers and nuts. The other essential thing was that, they were […]