Controlled orientation Sometimes, when you are studying something in more detail, it turns out to be working a little different than you first imagined it. This is shown by American researchers in Nature for the orientation of cell divisions of root cells. The final form of an organism is the result of a whole bunchContinue reading “Controlled orientation”
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A smart one-two reaction
A smart one-two reaction After recognition of pathogens by plants, often a lot of things simultaneously takes place. Everything to react as soon as possible. Now American and Dutch researchers show that plants initiate the first response to intrudes using a smart one-two like reaction. An alarm is useful to be notified when something goesContinue reading “A smart one-two reaction”
Helping hand
Helping hand Plants do better when they get help from in the soil living microbes. New research from Dutch, Belgian and Swiss researchers shows that this effect is increased when these individual microbes also help each other. The soil is full of microbes, fungi and bacteria. Lost of these microbes have a positive effect onContinue reading “Helping hand”
Fixed place
Fixed place In the busy chloroplasts of a plant it is essential that starch has its own place to prevent it blocking the way. Now Swiss researchers show in PNAS that the protein MFP1 is picking the spot. Starch is made by plants both to survive long and short periods or scarcity. While for theContinue reading “Fixed place”
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