Venus flytraps are one of the speediest plants around. But have you ever wondered what happens after a fly or cricket is trapped between those two big trap-leaves? This new study called “Venus flytraps’ metabolome analysis discloses the metabolic fate of prey animal foodstock” shows what happens next.
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Regulation from a distance
Plant genomes in contrast to animal genomes don’t contain regulatory elements, or so was I led to believe. Now a new study “Two deeply conserved non-coding sequences control PLETHORA1/2 expression and coordinate embryo and root development” shows that plants also have those gene regulatory elements.
How plants make aspirin
In 2001 the starting point for a brassica specific pathway for salicylic acid production was found. Now not one but three research groups out of China, with some collaboration with US and Canadian researchers, found out how the rest of the plants make salicylic acid.
Adapting to gravity
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.
Plant en Zo 