Category: Amazing Plants
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Chronic Wasting Disease Cured By Lichens?
Certain lichens can break down the infectious proteins responsible for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a troubling neurological disease fatal to wild deer and elk and spreading throughout the United States and Canada.
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The Weirdest Flower You’ll Ever See?
The flower of Hydnora is a kind of intricate trap. Or, as we will see, a temporary trap.
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Are plants as Defenseless as they appear?
The latest video from the University of Cambridge shows how plants use hairs, spikes and chemicals to improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores.
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The Mother of all Fungi
Scientists have identified what may be the “missing link” connecting fungi to plants, animals and bacteria.
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Can Mangrove Protection Slow Global Warming?
Per hectare mangrove forests store up to four times more carbon than most other tropical forests around the world.
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Non-Carniverous Plants Will Eat An Insect On Occasion
The vast majority of plants lack either adaptations for trapping, or the same kind of need for nitrogen — they either don't grow where they can't get the stuff, or they hire symbiotic bacteria to help fix it. Yet there is a third category of plants, which are not exactly carnivorous, but which might just “eat” the occasional stray fly anyway.
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One Fast Little Sucker (Plant)
Aquatic, meat-eating bladderworts are among the world's best suckers and they have just been named the fastest trapping carnivorous plants… Their traps suck in prey in less than a millisecond, making this one of the speediest movements in the entire plant kingdom.
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A Single Moss Clones Itself To Conquer America
Across northwestern North America, every example of a common peat moss can be traced back to a single parent, which likely conquered North America in less than 300 years
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The Oldest Living Things Have Chlorophyll
The world's oldest continuously living organisms — from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an “underground forest” in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.
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If Flowers Lost Their Pollinators
A rare 'live' study looking at what happens when you deprive plants of pollinators shows that evolution can step in to help them cope. But don‘t get the champagne out just yet.