Blushing flowers Some flowers shift colour after pollination. In this way they signal to pollinators here is nothing more to get. Now Chinese and American researches discovered which gene is regulating this in Lotus species. The flowers of Lotus japonicus and Lotus filicaulis are both yellow. Only one of those, L. filicaulis, colours a blushingContinue reading “Blushing flowers”
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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”
Shredding dead cells for protection
Shredding dead cells for protection Interestingly microbes are not colonising the root tip. Now researchers show in eLife that is because the tip protecting root cap is actively shredding death cells. Microbes are actively colonising plant roots. Except the growth centre containing tip of the root, which stays free of microbes. The root tip isContinue reading “Shredding dead cells for protection”
Decoy for cytokinin
Decoy for cytokinin Hormone signalling is regulated in multiple ways. Now researchers in Molecular Plant show a new way: using a decoy to regulate cytokinin signalling. The use of a decoy in the form of non-functioning receptors is known strategy in mammalian cells. But in plants this was up till now unknown. The researchers stumbledContinue reading “Decoy for cytokinin”
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