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How plants communicate with each other when in danger
The study marks the first time researchers have been able to “visualize plant-to-plant communication,” the senior author of the study said.
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Plan to save world's only wild macadamia trees from extinction
Given the lack of genetic diversity in the farmed crop, the race is on to preserve wild macadamia trees to improve traits like disease resistance, size and climate adaptability.
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Floral Time Travel: Flowers Were More Diverse 100 Million Years Ago Than They Are Today
Angiosperm flowers reached their greatest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history
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Glow way! Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time
Engineered petunia emits a continuous green glow thanks to genes from a light-up mushroom.
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Flowers Sprung Up 100 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Assumed: Study
Newly discovered fossilized pollen grains push the suspected origin of flowering plants back by 100 million years.
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Botanic garden in Australia wins World Landscape of the Year 2013
World Architecture Festival 2013: this year's award for the best landscape project at the World Architecture Festival has gone to a botanical garden at a former quarry in Australia.
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Elephant Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius)
This exotic plant from Southeast Asia has a massive bloom that emits an odor of decaying flesh. The plant is being adopted as a cash crop because of its large edible root. Scroll down the page for the full gallery of photos.
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Building a Hugelkultur Raised Bed
Sheet mulching is a technique of laying organic material in layers on the ground to build up a raised bed of rich soil for your plants. Hugelkultur is an extension of this technique, where a gardener builds quite tall raised beds using logs and dead branches as the first layer in this bed.
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Origin of flowers has been discovered
Flowering plants emerged on the planet over 160 million years ago - but it has never been entirely clear how these angiosperms came from their predecessor, gymnosperm ferns. New genetic analysis of the Amborella, a shrub with deep evolutionary roots, shows that there was a genomic doubling around 200 million years ago.
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Report: Some plants may not adapt quickly to future climate change
Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human-induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.
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13 Cannabis Time-Lapse Videos (see how weed plants grow!)
See exactly how a marijuana plant grows in these high-quality time-lapse videos. Watch plants sprout, get topped, fill up a ScrOG screen, flower and more!
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10 Odd Realities (With Pictures) About Growing Cannabis Plants | Grow Weed Easy
For growers! View an assortment of strange mutations and unique pictures of growing cannabis plants.
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Amber Fossil Shows Ancient Reproduction in Flowering Plant
Researchers have stumbled across a 100-million-year old piece of amber, perfectly preserving flowering plant life from the Cretaceous Period. Encased within amber surroundings, a cluster of 18 sm...
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10 Houseplants That Improve Indoor Air Quality
Today, January 10th, is “Houseplant Appreciation Day”. In honor of this little-known holiday, we wanted to take a closer look at the top ten houseplants that have the ability to naturally improve the air quality in your home.
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Oldest evidence of sex in flowering plants
The oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant - dating back 100 million years - has been found in Burma. The team discovered a cluster of 18 tiny flowers in a piece of amber; one of them was in the process of making new seeds for the next generation.
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New evidence that plants get their energy using quantum entanglement
Biophysicists theorize that plants tap into the eerie world of quantum entanglement during photosynthesis. But the evidence to date has been purely circumstantial. Now, scientists have discovered a feature of plants that cannot be explained by classical physics alone — but which quantum mechanics answers quite nicely.
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Botany Building
For thousands of years, man has practiced the art of tree and plant shaping. There are many methods for actively influencing a tree’s growth, such as bonsai, topiary, espalier, pleaching, and grafting. Some of these methods may be used together to grow a living structure.
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Suspicious Virus Makes Rare Cross-Kingdom Leap From Plants to Honeybees
When HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans sometime in the early 1900s, it crossed a gulf spanning several million years of evolution. But tobacco ringspot virus, scientists announced last week, has made a jump that defies credulity. It has crossed a yawning chasm ~1.6 billion years wide.
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New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery
Research suggests that Mexico, rather than Europe, may be key to famously indecipherable botanical document.
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Male Plants, Bananas & Hermies | Grow Weed Easy
For cannabis growers - Learn how to identify male & female plants by their pre-flowers, and discover what growers can do to prevent hermies (plants that display both male and female parts).
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