Celebrating Plants and People
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Can This Carnivorous Plant Save France From Hornets?
Bee-killing Asian hornets spreading across Europe now face a natural enemy that lures them to destruction – a carnivorous North American plant, French experts say.
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Watermelons Have Been A Delicious Treat For 4000 Years
The diverse evidence, combined, indicates that northeastern Africa is the centre of origin of the dessert watermelon, that watermelons were domesticated for water and food there over 4000 years ago, and that sweet dessert watermelons emerged in Mediterranean lands by approximately 2000 years ago.
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Scents: Good Or Bad – Plants Actively Exhale Volatiles
Plants aren’t burping, We’re not saying diffusion doesn’t happen, but it’s not enough to describe the rates of volatile emission that we observe.
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As Grasses Dominated Savannas, Animals Tried Them With Mixed Success
All the large mammal groups tried experiments in eating grasses, and a lot of those experiments didn’t work in the long run. Animals became extinct or they switched to other diets. There was even a grazing giraffe, but that became extinct. There were three major lineages of pigs that were grazers, and only one has survived: the warthog.
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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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When Urban Trees Make Pollution More Dangerous
The importance of trees is not in question, as protecting our green spaces is vital for the environment on a global scale. However, if we choose to plant trees in our city streets, at a local level, the outcome on air quality may be somewhat different. It is important to consider the type of tree you wish to plant, the shape of the street, what direction the wind blows, and where your pollutant source (cars) and receptors (pedestrians) are located.
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How A Genetic Mutation Created Agriculture
But despite this long history, until now we’ve not been able to answer the important question of how wild barley shifted from dropping its grain to the ground at maturity to the grain staying in the ear – a genetic change that was necessary to allow efficient harvesting of grain. We also haven’t known whether barley domestication stemmed from the one location and time, or happened multiple times.
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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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If I Could Talk To The Annuals. Grocery Chain Hires “Plant Whisperers”
Britain’s leading hardware store is to employ PLANT WHISPERERS to cultivate in-store flowers by TALKING to them.
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When Conservation Research Endangers The Subject Being Studied
Most studies assume that coring has no impact on tree health –maintaining reproductive output, trunk strength, growth rate and risk of death. However, there is a small body of research that reports significant, sometimes fatal, outcomes, directly attributable to this sampling technique.