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The Green Globs
Photograph by John B. Carnett; Ellen Goethel (inset) BRILLO BEASTSBeachgoers and scientists alike were baffled when thousands of these globs washed up on a New Hampshire beach. Photograph by John B....
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Can Plants Think?
The Persistence Of Memory A Polish study showed plants send electrochemical signals in a way that can be likened to an animal nervous system. This image shows chemical reactions in leaves that were...
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Genetically Engineered Plants Grow Ingredients For Making Green Plastic
Plant Oil Plastics Brookhaven biochemist John Shanklin shows off a fatty Arabidopsis plant. Brookhaven National Laboratory/YouTube In a new breakthrough, scientists from the Brookhaven National...
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Tomato Genome Decoded, Will Seed Development of Tastier, Fleshier Fruits
Ripe and Juicy Manjith Kainickara via Flickr A relatively small cluster of genetic information, some of it dating to 60 million years ago, endows the staple fruit of summer with its taste and texture....
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Plants are able to remember information and react to it, thanks to an internal communications system that can be likened to a central nervous system in animals, according to…
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In a new breakthrough, scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory and Dow AgroSciences have engineered a relative of cabbage to create the raw material for producing…
View ArticleTomato Genome Decoded, Will Seed Development of Tastier, Fleshier Fruits
A relatively small cluster of genetic information, some of it dating to 60 million years ago, endows the staple fruit of summer with its taste and texture. The secrets of the…
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