The eighth month of the year may be when many people are on holiday (at least in the Northern Hemisphere).
But plant science news didn’t take a holiday.
Indeed, there were so many popular reports published last August, it was difficult for me to select only a few.
Anyway, here are five that you may find particularly “tasty”.
“A University of Otago botany researcher and colleagues have developed a new system to map the world’s “biomes”— large-scale vegetation formations — that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changes.“
New map of world vegetation reveals substantial changes since 1980s.
“New research from the University of British Columbia suggests evolution is a driving mechanism behind plant migration, and that scientists may be underestimating how quickly species can move.“
Evolution drives how fast plants could migrate with climate change: UBC study.
“This repair system may have applications in agriculture and biotechnology because it could potentially be harnessed to enable proteins to become active only in the light.“
Novel “repair system” discovered in algae may yield new tools for biotechnology.
UNH scientists unravel genetic ancestry of cultivated strawberry.
Next-Time: Find out what the most re-tweeted plant research news stories were during September 2016.
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