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John Bryant takes a closer look at some of this month's Original Articles

J. A. Bryant, Professor

University of Exeter, UK
E-mail j.a.bryant@exeter.ac.uk

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Death and glory


Figure 1
When UK rock group The Rolling Stones sang ‘...you can send me dead flowers every morning...’, floral decoration was very far from their minds. However, dead and dried flowers used as decorations often last several years. One plant used in this way is Helichrysum bracteatum, one of the so-called ‘eternal’ flowers. In this species, the colour is provided by several rows of large, scarious (but otherwise corolla-like) bracts, as described by Nishikawa et al. (Kyoto, Japan, pp. 31–37). Bract water content is low, well below 50 % of the water content of growing tissues and much more typical of tissues containing high proportions of dead cells. So, at what stage do the bracts of H. bracteatum actually die? The authors . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Once more unto the breach

Parasite prefers to do it on grass

Seed behaviour: can we blame the mothers?


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