Category: Amazing Plants
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How Parasitic Plants Know When To Start Growing And Attack
In the new study, the researchers discovered how seeds of these parasitic weeds, which can lay dormant in the soil for decades, can detect when other plants are nearby, and begin to grow.
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Social Media Discovers New Plant Species Hidden In Plain Sight
The discovery of the magnificent sundew, however, is the first plant species to be recorded as being discovered through photographs on a social network,
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Plants That Trap Insects To Barter With Predatory Insects For Protection
The sticky plants aren’t all relatives. Rather, flypaper plants seem to have evolved more than 100 separate times. They may all make different gluey compounds. But whatever siren songs they’re sending out, bugs would be better off ignoring them.
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Weaponizing A Native Fungus To Kill An Invasive Tree
What we are experiencing is the rapid expansion of the tree of heaven replacing our native species. This might be our shot at overcoming its expansion.
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The Herb That Smokes: Nicotine And Peppermint
Results show that all the peppermint plants contain minor amounts of nicotine before treatment, but the experiments revealed that the plants also incorporate nicotine considerably from the soil as well as from tobacco smoke. These findings demonstrate for the first time that the reported occurrence of nicotine indeed may originate from tobacco. The incorporated nicotine was subsequently metabolised by the plants.
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How Does A Plant Colonize Islands That Lack Their Pollinator?
Our interest in taking a more extensive look at the role of wind for pollination of fadang rests in the fact that isolated islands that receive new seeds of the oceanic island cycad species would not have the native insect pollinators. As a result, the initial plants that colonize an isolated island would not be able to reproduce if they could not exploit some other means of pollination.
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Do Some Plants Harbor Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria IN Their Leaves?
The bacteria in today’s story don’t dwell ON the leaves, but INSIDE the leaves.
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Braving Killer Crocodiles To Bring Back Spectacular New Waterlily Species
A perilous expedition in northwestern Australia that had researchers wading through lakes, ponds and creeks stalked by meat-eating crocodiles has ended with the discovery of a stunning new species of waterlily.
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Plants Trick Diseases Into Revealing Themselves Early On
Perception of pathogens is essential for immunity. Plants have very efficient defence mechanisms to stop a pathogen, if they can detect it soon enough. In turn, pathogens are constantly evolving to become stealthier to evade perception by the host. This arms race means both plant and pathogen are constantly under pressure to evolve new ways to outwit each other. Scientists now know these ways include the integration of decoy domains within receptors.
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Why Eastern U.S. Forests So Resemble Asian Forests
A new analysis of DNA studies shows that over half of all the trees and shrubs in the southern Appalachians can trace their ancestry to relatives a half a world away in Asia.