Trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. A strategy that helps then to survive the cold winter. But how plants are regulating this is not completely known. A group of Swedish and Chinese researchers found this out for poplars.
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A waxy layer for salt tolerance
Most plants don’t like to much salt. Still, there are plants that flourish under salty conditions. Not surprisingly researchers are curious how plants adapted that don’t stress out over an extra pinch of salt.
Interrupting virus replication
Just like us humans, plants are also infected by viruses. These can cause lost of damage. Therefore, researchers like to know how these viruses work, so they can stop them where possible.
Pitcher plant not a strict predator after all
Nature documentaries make us believe that pitcher plants are highly skilled at trapping insects. In reality, a pitcher plant success rate is not that high, about 2%. This made scientist wonder if pitcher plants are really the predators we believe them to be.
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