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10 hrs ago | CiteULike

Chlorophyll a Fluorescence : A Signature of Photosynthesis (Advances...

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, ...

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19 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

Florida palm a new genus, US scientists discover

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.

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Tue Aug 19, 2008

The Signal

Mentryville vs. chain saw, part II

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 ...

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Mon Aug 18, 2008

The Economist

Art.view: Flower child

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.

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Related Topix: Pakistan Travel, Collecting, Life, Hobbies, Biology, Science, Painting, Arts

Sat Aug 16, 2008

Physics Blog

MSU to create genomic clearinghouse for biofuel crops

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.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Michigan State University, Biofuel, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Agriculture

Fri Aug 15, 2008

Today's Chemist At Work

Determination of Water-Extractable Nonstructural Carbohydrates,...

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

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Thu Aug 14, 2008

Green Car Congress

MSU to Create Genomic Clearinghouse for Cellulosic Ethanol Energy Crops

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.

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Wed Aug 13, 2008

Science Daily

New Group Of Plant Hormones Discovered

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

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Biology News Net

Microbes, by latitudes and altitudes, shed new light on life's diversity

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.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, University of Oregon, University of Southern California

Tue Aug 12, 2008

PhysOrg Weblog

Microbes, by latitudes and altitudes, shed new light on life's diversity

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 ...

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Mon Aug 11, 2008

Journal of Experimental Botany

GCN2-dependent phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor-2{alpha} in Arabidopsis

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 ...

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Sun Aug 10, 2008

CiteULike

Heterologous myb genes distinct from GL1 enhance trichome production...

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.

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Sat Aug 09, 2008

CiteULike

Isolation and characterization of the CYP71D16 trichome-specific promoter from Nicotiana tabacum L.

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

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Fri Aug 08, 2008

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Botanical illustrator

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.

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Thu Aug 07, 2008

Irish Independent

Root of the matter

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.

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Related Topix: Ecology, Biology, Biochemistry, Agriculture

Prague Daily Monitor

Invasive plants spread across R

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 ...

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Czech Republic, World News

Wed Aug 06, 2008

WisInfo

In Good Taste: Sweet tip: Leave tomatoes on the vine

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 ...

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Tue Aug 05, 2008

CSIRO Publishing

Measuring Impacts of Climate Change on Plants

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, ...

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Mon Aug 04, 2008

Human Flower Project

Botany a la Cart

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

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Chelsea, MI, Home Gardening, Home

Big Bear Grizzly

Leaving scars on sacred ground

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

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