Botany
biodiversity
South America’s Endangered Oases
With only 4% of their area protected, fog oases are threatened by urbanization, mining, increased air pollution, and off-road trails
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Video
The plant biological clock benefits agriculture
Understanding the plant circadian rhythms, and learning how to manipulate them, may widen cultivation options | 2'42
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Photolab
The phoenix tree
Like the mythical bird that rises from the ashes, the andira tree sprouts from the ground after wildfires in the Cerrado
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Biology
Underground dispute
A team of researchers from the USA, Spain, and Brazil have explained the growth behavior of plant roots
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Photolab
Plant-stem lace
If you take a thin slice of a young stem of Acleisanthes chenopodioides and look at it under a microscope, this is what you will see
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Photolab
Inside the vines
The dyed stem cross-sections in the images show the stiffer and the more flexible parts of forest vines
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Botany
Plants with miner roots
Study demonstrates a new function of the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha
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Botany
Rare Cuban flora
The library at Cornell University, USA, has published a scanned copy of a nineteenth-century manuscript on Cuban flora by American botanist Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft on its website
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Botanics
The origin of the mango flower’s sweet smell
In the mango and cajuzinho-do-campo flowers, the scent glands are located at the inner base of the petals
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Photolab
A perfect fit
Frogs are very particular when choosing the flowers in which they will spend their whole lives
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photolab
Splendor at the highest heights
High in the Itatiaia mountains in Rio de Janeiro, more than 2,000 meters above sea level, the brightly colored flowers of the Buddleja speciosissima demand attention
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