Biology

An artist’s observations, two botanists’ suspicions, and DNA tests reveal a case of mistaken identity among giant water plants. When 19th-century European botanists encountered impressive water lilies with leaves more extensive than a pingpong table, they initially thought these South American plants constituted simply one species. Very soon, they comprehended that the Victoria genus– named […]

Researchers have joined macro photography with DNA metabarcoding to create a brand-new botanical “CSI” device that might hold the key to safeguarding the future of Australia’s critically endangered carnivorous plants. The brand-new technology– developed by researchers from Curtin University, the Botanical and Zoological Natural History Collections in Munich, and the University of Munich– enables specialists

Scientists analyzing one of the largest genomic datasets of plants. Have actually found how the first plants on Earth evolved the mechanisms used to control water and ‘breathe’ on land hundreds of millions of years ago. The research study by the University of Bristol and University of Essex. Published in New Phytologist, has essential implications

It is typically not even identifiable to the naked eye and harbors risks that can not yet be accurately examined: Microplastics are going into the environment in ever greater concentrations and decompose only very slowly. The plastic particles, up to 5 millimeters in size, are dispersed by water and wind. In the meantime, microplastics have