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Healthy grain fibre helps barley resist pests
New research has shed light on the action of the serious agricultural pest, cereal cyst nematode, which will help ...
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Coco de mer performs 'parental care' and modifies its habitat
How coco de mer palm manages to modify its barren habitat in the Seychelles so that it produces the largest fruits...
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Scientists transfer pathogen-sensing ‘antenna’ gene to wheat
New paper describes successful transfer of a receptor that recognises pathogenic bacteria from Arabidopsis to wheat ...
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Chemical mimicry and Aristolochia
Editors' Choice by André Kessler: The betrayed thief – the extraordinary strategy of Aristolochia rotunda to deceive ...
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A question of light: Ocean acidification slows algae growth in the Southern Ocean
A new study shows that ocean acidification could have negative impacts on diatoms in the Southern Ocean ...
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Plants survive better through mass extinctions than animals
At least 5 mass extinction events have profoundly changed the history of life on Earth. But a new study shows that plants have been ...