A thirsty secret

We’re back from our holidays and we brought a big bag of plant facts from the last couple of weeks of plant science!

We’re back from our holidays and we brought a big bag of plant facts from the last couple of weeks of plant science!

Pollinators of the sea: A discovery of animal-mediated fertilization in seaweed | ScienceImproving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection | ScienceUwe Sonnewald on Twitter about the paperRethinking the retraction process | ScienceGMO chestnuts could save tree populationsAncient plastid genomes solve the tree species mystery of the imperial wood “Nanmu” in the Forbidden City, the largest existing wooden palace complex in the worldNanmu – WikipediaCollection of native Theobroma cacao L. accessions from the Ecuadorian Amazon highlights a hotspot of cocoa diversity15 years of experiments have overturned a major assumption about how thirsty plants actually areHumidity gradients in the air spaces of leaves | Nature PlantsToward Targeted Invasive Predator Control: Developing pH-Responsive Subcutaneous Implants for Native Mammals | ACS Applied Polymer MaterialsPoison Peas and the Australian Arms Race – Plants and Pipettes

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