Background – Plant en Zo

Plants Talk—Just Not the Way You Think

Do plants really talk among themselves or is this all just chemistry with a bit of humanising sauce put in the mix.

The hidden layer of genetic flexibility

Plants have fascinating genomes, complex with many multiplicated genes. It is one of the reasons they can produce many complex compounds. So, when I heard that they have those so-called extracellular circular DNA I was hooked.

How plants photosynthesize

Sometimes it seems that plants grow spontaneously. This all is due to maybe one of the coolest tricks of plants in that they produce their own food. Photosynthesis plays a major role in this process.

Extra protection

Extra protection To prevent that everything and everyone can just entre plant roots have an extra lignin layer to protect their vascular tissue. But lots of plants have in addition to this protecting ring another barrier. Now a group of international researchers show in Nature Plants how plants are regulating this barrier. Plant roots containContinue reading “Extra protection”