What We’re Reading: March 24
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Reviews: Nature Insight: Plants ($)
Nature journal published a special “Plant Insights” section featuring several excellent reviews. Zipfel…
A community repository of plant illustrations
Blog, Research Blog, Writing/Reviewing/Publishing/CommunicatingGuest post by Erin Sparks, Guillaume Lobet, Larry York and Frédéric Bouché
It is midnight on a cold winter evening and you are scheduled to give a seminar at 8 am the next morning. All you are missing to complete your presentation is one last graphic to illustrate your conclusions. You wearily…
How a kernel of corn may yield answers into some cancers (by Kevin Folta)
Blog, Research, Research BlogThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
By Kevin M. Folta, University of Florida
Driving down a country highway in the Midwest can seem an endless ribbon flanked by green walls of corn, neatly planted in stately rows. But who would guess…
What We're Reading: March 17
Research, Research BlogReview: Methods of cell-specific hormone analysis ($)
Plant hormones are active at very small quantities and often act differently in different cell types. Various methods, primarily involving mass spectrometry and sensors, have been developed to identify and quantify hormones with cellular-level…
Nature Insights: Plants (March 2017)
Blog, Research, Research BlogThe journal Nature published a special "Insights" section featuring plant science research. All articles require a subscription to Nature.
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Orli Bahcall, Angela K. Eggleston & Sadaf Shadan, Nature 543, 327 (15 March 2017)
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Plant signalling in symbiosis and…
Protein doppelgangers are long-lost cousins
Research, Research BlogWednesday, 15 March 2017 Source: University of Western Australia
A 60-year-old mystery has been solved by biochemists at The University of Western Australia investigating the origin of a type of digestion-inhibiting proteins thought only to exist in two plant families that contain the important…
What We’re Reading: March 10
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Review: The increasing impact of activity-based protein profiling in plant science
Activity-based protein profiling is a proteomics approach that involves covalently labeling reporter tags to subsets of proteins based on their active sites. Morimoto and van der Hoorn define different types of…
Trees' ability to store carbon in doubt after groundbreaking Australian study
Blog, Research, Research BlogThe ability of trees to offset carbon emissions has been questioned after a Western Sydney University study found common Australian trees are unable to store as much carbon as previously thought.
Published in the Nature Climate Change journal, the research found that Australia's iconic Eucalyptus…
How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty (The Conversation)
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Increasing carbon dioxide is impacting some of our favourite foods.Glenn Fitzgerald, University of Melbourne
Climate change and extreme weather events are already impacting our food, from meat and vegetables, right through to wine. In our series on the Climate and Food, we’re looking at what this…