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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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Human touch leads to pallid plants and lumpy lesions


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The inability of plants to ‘run away’ has implications for the ways in which they interact with their environment. One feature that is encountered by all plants is mechanical perturbation; in plants growing on land this may include wind and rain action, herbivore activity, encounters with other objects (such as stones, rocks and even other plants) and touch. It is this latter factor that has been investigated by Porter et al., in Hawai'i (pp. 847–858). They have focused especially on changes in plant growth and morphology (thigmomorphogenesis) in response to a touch treatment in the tropical fruit tree, Carica papaya. This species was chosen because its small genome has been sequenced, it is readily transformed by GM techniques and it grows rapidly. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Copper arrests root growth and provokes small protein responses

[Data] Mining for Mn – it's a pressing matter

Organs move closer to do it for themselves


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