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Records dating back to Thoreau show some sharp shifts in plant flowering near Walden Pond

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created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., have borne the effects ...


Effects of climate change vary greatly across plant families

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created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly different ...





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Scientists find unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity

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created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 2

What began with an off-the-cuff curiosity eventually led Joe Williams to hang from the limbs of a tree 80 feet above the soil of northeastern Australia.


Newly discovered signaling pathway ensures that plants remember to flower

Newly discovered signaling pathway ensures that plants remember to flower

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some plants blossom even when days are short and gray? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology have found the answer to this question: An endogenous mechanism ...


Rapid burst of flowering plants set stage for other species

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly 90 million years ago, ultimately leading to the formation of ...


Ferns took to the trees and thrived

Ferns took to the trees and thrived

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment.


Study provides insight into evolution of first flowers

Study provides insight into evolution of first flowers

Biology / Evolution

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago as an abominable mystery, one that scientists have yet to solve.


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Extreme weather postpones the flowering time of plants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Extreme weather events have a greater effect on flora than previously presumed. A one-month drought postpones the time of flowering of grassland and heathland plants in Central Europe by an average of 4 days. ...


Maize findings could lead to vigorous new varieties and insights into human genetics

Scientists devise efficient way of learning about complex corn traits

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There's no "silver bullet" gene or gene region that controls so-called complex traits in maize, commonly known as corn.


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Plants take a hike as temperatures rise

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 10

Plants are flowering at higher elevations in Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains as summer temperatures rise, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.


Early spring time for Edinburgh? Study predicts effect of global warming on spring flowers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Will we soon see the flowers of Edinburgh in full bloom in the depths of winter? This possibility is considered in a new study into the impact of global warming on spring flowering, published today in the International Jo ...


Scientists unlock secret of what makes plants flower

Scientists unlock secret of what makes plants flower

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created Apr 18, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (19) | comments 0

A protein acting as a long-distance signal from leaf to shoot-tip tells plants when to flower, says new research published in Science Express on Thursday 19 April 2007.



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