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When Flowers Go Silent
Attractive colour and sweet scent are the most common strategies flowers use to advertise their nectar. When pollinators arrive, they sip the sugary reward, and as they move on, guided by the colour and scent of the next flower, they carry pollens with them. However, in a study published in Plant Biology, Albuquerque and colleagues reveal that some pollinator bats in Brazil do not sniff to find their flowers; they call into the night and follow the echo straight to their dinner....
Plant Science Research Weekly
Tomato Transpiration
Transpiration from tomato fruit occurs primarily via trichome-associated transcuticular polar pores (Plant Physiol.)
Abiotic stress and reactive oxygen signaling
Review: Integration of reactive oxygen species and hormone signaling during abiotic stress (Plant J.)
Bundle sheath suberisation
Bundle sheath suberisation is required for C4 photosynthesis in a Setaria viridis mutant (Nature Comms)
Bryophytes
Viewpoint: Bryophytes are not early diverging land plants (New Phytol.)
