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Chlorophyll a Fluorescence : A Signature of Photosynthesis dianella Abstract Chlorophyll a Fluorescence: A Signature of Photosynthesis highlights chlorophyll a fluorescence as a convenient, non-invasive, ...

It was a case of mistaken identity that lasted more than a century. A Caribbean palm that is well-known and widely grown in South Florida, the Keys thatch palm, is no longer what it was: Thrinax morrisii.

On an early morning hike through Mentryville recently with Darryl Manzer, past the big house, the wrought-iron pen he said he built to contain pigs, the gray splintered and crumbling shed by the school, past ...

DR SHIRLEY SHERWOOD is a botanist who became distinguished collector by chance. She was working at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and saw some paintings that stirred a childhood passion.

Michigan State University scientists, armed with a half-million-dollar federal grant, are creating an easily accessible, Web-based genomic database of information on crops that can be used to make ethanol.

Received for review March 28, 2008. Revised manuscript received July 5, 2008. Accepted July 10, 2008.

Michigan State University scientists, supported with a $540,000 Federal grant, are creating a Web-based genomic database of information on energy crops that can be used to make cellulosic ethanol.

This group of chemicals is known to be involved in the interaction between plants and their environment.

Jessica Green of the University of Oregon's Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is using molecular technique to revisit the diversity of microbes around the world.

Jessica Green, right, works with Lise Ovreas, a scientist with the University of Bergen Center for Geobiology, to obtain microbes at Svalbard, an island in a Norway-controlled archipelago about 300 miles south ...

JXB Advance Access originally published online on July 4, 2008 Journal of Experimental Botany 2008 59 :3131-3141; doi:10.1093/jxb/ern169 GCN2-dependent phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation ...

GLABROUS 1, a myb gene required for trichome development in Arabidopsis, did not alter the trichome phenotype of the tobacco plants in which it was overexpressed.

Abstract Trichomes are specialized epidermal cells that produce secretions that are thought to provide a first line of defence against pests and pathogens.

Produce scientific illustrations of plants in pen and ink for botanists. Salary: Full-time botanical illustrators earn around $60K per year or $450 for an A4-size, full scientific plate.

Botany, the study of plant life, can prove to be a very interesting career choice for those who have an innate curiosity about natural history and science.

Invasive plants have been spreading across the Czech landscape, also as a result of repeated floods in recent years, gradually replacing the country's original flora and threatening its diversity, the daily ...

We're just entering the peak tomato season, and all signs point to a juicy one. Farmers markets, roadside vegetable stands and your own backyard garden are all turning red with joy as tomato lovers are on the ...

This Special Issue of Functional Plant Biology contains papers arising from presentations made at the EcoFIZZ 2007 meeting, held at the University of Western Sydney - " Hawkesbury in Richmond, New South Wales, ...

A 350-year-old research garden wheels out an innovation in plant education. And now, the public's invited.

Tire tracks created mud bogs in a meadow southwest of Big Bear Lake. The damage is extensive.