Plants synchronise the opening of their flowers with the scent production of those flowers. But how this is regulated is still not completely clear. Now a group of Korean researchers found the circadian gene that coordinates this synchrony.
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Good smelling tomatoes
Nobody wants a juicy tomato without taste. One of the contributors to that taste are the volatile compounds from the tomato. But how the tomato regulates their production was not clear. Now a group of Korean researchers found out that losing a single gene that regulates the degradation of chloroplasts also influences the production of volatile molecules.
What makes strawberry plants run
If you ever grew strawberry plants then you know they are prone to produce runners, which produce daughter plants along their stems, but no strawberries. Now a group of Chinese and American researchers found out how plants regulate the formation of those runners.
Moving reproductive siRNAs
When thinking about plant reproduction you might be forgiven thinking that all the action happens in flowers. Small interference RNA, or siRNA for short, that originated elsewhere in the plant also play a role. In fact, without them pollen are largely not viable. The one exception, at least so scientists thought, where the brassica species. Now a new study shows that they siRNAs as well, only they produce them slightly different.
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