Category: Amazing Plants
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Plants Tailor Chemical Response To Which Insect Is Attacking
It was no surprise that the plant responded differently to having its leaves chewed by a caterpillar or pierced by an aphid’s needle-like mouthparts, But we were amazed that the plant responded so differently to insects that feed in the same way.”
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Plants Will Be Here Long After We Are Gone: They Survive Mass Extinctions Better
In the plant kingdom, mass extinction events can be seen as opportunities for turnover leading to renewed biodiversity,
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Separated For 60million Years, Two Fern Species Produce Love Child
A delicate woodland fern discovered in the mountains of France is the love child of two distantly-related groups of plants that haven’t interbred in 60 million years, genetic analyses show.
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3,000 Year-Old Grape Seed Changes History And Builds The Future
These seeds, however, have more than a purely historical value, they are perfectly intact and can be used to enhance the island’s doc wine production. These seeds can be used to restore the genetic qualities of these indigenous wine varieties that are currently under threat of disappearance.
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100 million year Romance Of Grasses And Ergot
And if they already seemed a little scary, imagine a huge sauropod dinosaur that just ate a large portion of this psychotropic fungus, which in other animal species can cause anything from hallucinations to delirium, gangrene, convulsions or the staggers. The fungus, the grasses it lived on and dinosaurs that ate grass co-existed for millions of years.
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The Mystery Of Giant Hollow Baobabs: It’s The Secret Of Their Success!
We found and dated many other African baobabs with false inner cavities. We also found that this new baobab architecture, i.e., the closed ring-shaped structure with false inner cavity, enables baobabs to reach large sizes and old ages.
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Most Charismatic Palm Is Also A Doting Parent
“The coco de mer is the only charismatic plant that can rival the giant panda or the tiger,” Now the science behind the charismatic palm’s seeds is proving to be just as fascinating.
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A Tree Is Not A Tree, It Is A World
Interactions between trees and their associated microbial communities are tremendously complex and the resulting multiorganismal networks have central roles in plant growth and productivity (Bonfante & Anca, 2009). A more holistic view of plant health and disease is needed to better understand these ‘superorganisms’, in which interacting species are thought to play a role in the overall stability of the system. Similar to the human microbiota, disruption of the homeostasis between plants and their associated fungal and bacterial communities may alter the stability of the system, with potential impacts on host fitness
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Plants Reveal Their Own Defenses. A New Approach To Pesticides?
Juvenile hormone (JH) plays key roles in insect development, reproduction, and many other physiological functions. .We report on the discovery of potent JH antagonists in plants, which represents an innate resistance mechanism of plants against insect herbivores. These newly discovered plant JH antagonist compounds could be used as the starting material for developing novel insecticides.
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Nasty! Newly Discovered Plant Smells Like Rotting Fish
“It is amazing that we can find a plant that has developed symbiotically with fungi over tens of millions of years and gone undetected near a large urban centre like Sydney,”