Celebrating Plants and People
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Tiny Unattractive Ancient Farmers Newly Discovered
Instead of consuming all bacteria in their patch, [the amoebae will] stop feeding early and incorporate bacteria into their fruiting bodies They then carry bacteria during spore dispersal and can seed a new food crop, which is a major advantage if edible bacteria are lacking at the new site.
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Can Forest Plantings Control Global Warming?
Foresting all or half the world's cropland reduced global temperatures in 2100 by 0.45 °C and 0.25 °C respectively.
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Is Tree Height Unlimited?
As trees grow taller, increasing leaf water stress due to gravity and path length resistance may ultimately limit leaf expansion and photosynthesis for further height growth
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The Conifer That Learned From Broadleaf Plants
The podocarps' broad leaf-like structure, which may be formed from one or more flattened needles or from a flattened petiole (stalk), has allowed them to mimic one of the most successful adaptations of flowering plants
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More Tropical Forests Managed Sustainably
The world's tropical forests are better managed now than five years ago, concludes a survey by the International Tropical Timber Organisation
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Cavemen grew GM rice over 10,000 years ago?
Ancient humans selected different strains of the rice and mixed their genes to create an ideal version of the crop, which had led to higher yields and better cultivation.
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Native Plants Reported To Stop Spread Of Invasive Weed
Nature can have its own solutions to offer against invasive plant species. In the case of the weed cogongrass, woody vegetation at the forest‘s edge may stop its progress.
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Mapping The Rain Forest: ‘Flying Observatory’ to Beam Back Rainbow-Colored Forest Maps
A major goal is to help local governments manage the forests and mitigate the effects of human habitation.
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Algae – What CAN’T it do? Everything old is new again
They can clean your wastewater, fuel up your car, and then help grow a fish for your dinner.
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Parasitic wasp larvae interfere with each other via their host’s host plant
So although this result shows that one parasitoid wasp can reach out and influence another through three other organisms