How do plants adapt to drought and heat? New studies on plants of the Canary Islands show that adaptation is not determined by a single character but by the interaction of entire sets of characters.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States ...
The Earth is home to a diversity of plants with highly varied forms and functions. This extraordinary morphological, physiological and biochemical diversity determines how plants adapt and respond to ...
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DNA analysis reveals gene copy number variation drives rapid adaptation in invasive plants
A breakthrough method for analyzing the DNA of centuries-old plant samples has given scientists an edge in combating the spread of invasive plants. Researchers from Monash University and the ...
Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...
For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields ...
For 60 years, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture (Joint Centre), based in Austria, has been speeding up the natural genetic adaptation of plants by using gamma ...
How do plants adapt to drought and heat? New studies on plants of the Canary Islands show that adaptation is not determined by a single character but by the interaction of entire sets of characters.
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