Plants underwent lots of changes when they emerged onto land 500 million years ago. Now Japanese researchers show in an article “First contact with greater gravity: Moss plants adapted via enhanced photosynthesis mediated by AP2/ERF transcription factors” that one of those adaptations likely was an increase in photosynthetic activity.
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Getting a little salt tolerance
Plants in a saline environment have no other choice than to adapt. Spanish and French researchers show one of those adaptions in the newly published research “Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands”.
Unequal inheritance
Against all odds the dog rose, Rosa caninae, manages to sexually reproduce with an uneven number of chromosomes. German and Czech researchers show in Nature hoe the dog rose manages this.
Hairiness control
In a new study named ‘The SlGRAS9-SlMYC1 regulatory module controls glandular trichome formation and modulates resilience to pest in tomato’, French and Chinese researchers study which genes exactly determine the number of hairs loaded with such a chemical mine.
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