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Roots and Shoots
Jan 23, 2023
The caterpillar receptor
Small mutations in an immune receptor enabled some plants to evolve the…
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Roots and Shoots
Jan 14, 2022
Protecting potatoes
What are the compounds that certain bacteria produce to fight off microorganisms…
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Roots and Shoots
Apr 15, 2021
Seeing the (far-red) light
The duplication of an ancient gene gave plants the opportunity to better…
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Roots and Shoots
Feb 11, 2021
Fighting for your leaves
Yeast living on leaves can produce a protein that protects the plant against…
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Roots and Shoots
Sep 3, 2020
The complex story of plant respiration
A high-resolution structure of the proteins responsible for…
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Aug 29, 2020
A long chain of protection
Two genes in tomato and its close relatives allow these plants to produce…
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Roots and Shoots
May 2, 2020
Bioluminescent fungi unlock new toolkit for plant research
Enzymes that produce bioluminescence in…
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Feb 9, 2020
How seeds smuggle extra DNA
A screen of tens of thousands of seeds has identified plant embryos that…
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eLife
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Dec 11, 2019
Unlocking transposable elements
New results dissect how plant sex cells reactivate regions of DNA that…
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Roots and Shoots
Nov 15, 2019
Why plants destroy a key immune protein
Plants control the activity of the protein that coordinates…
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