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Science & Tech News tagged with botany

World's First Ever 'Self-Watering' Plant Discovered in Israel
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, botany, water, desert heat, plants under stress, plants )

Mimi
- 147 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have discovered the world's first 'self-watering' plant in Israel's Negev desert - one of the driest regions on earth.
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Protein That Triggers Plant Cell Division Revealed
Science & Tech  (tags: botany, climate, discovery, environment, investigation, research, science, scientists, study, technology )

Kit
- 164 days ago - sciencedaily.com
From the valves in a human heart to the quills on a porcupine to the petals on a summer lily, the living world is as varied as it is vast. For this to be possible, the cells that make up these living things must be just as varied. Parent cells must be....
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Giant Palm Tree Can Be Seen From Space - Madagascar
Science & Tech  (tags: Madagascar, palm, new species, species, find, botany, discovery )

Chrissy
- 678 days ago - news.com.au
BOTANISTS say they have identified a new species of palm that is so enormous it can be spotted from space and whose bizarre life cycle requires the plant to kill itself after it has flowered. The gigantic, pyramid-shaped plant was discovered accidentally
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Fossil Cashew Nuts From the Eocene of Europe Was Important Link Between Africa and South America
Science & Tech  (tags: research, discovery, environment, eocene, evolution, fossils, botany, biology, interesting )

J.
- 767 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Researchers examined fossil remains found in the Messel oil shales,near Darmstadt,Germany,which are dated to about 47-million years ago.This new data indicates that Europe may be an important biogeographic link between Africa and the New World.
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Genetic Differences in Clover Make One Type Toxic
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, discovery, interesting, study, endangered plants, botany, nature, genetics, biochemistry, research, ecology )

J.
- 783 days ago - news-info.wustl.edu
Some clovers have evolved genes that help the plant produce cyanide to protect itself against little herbivores, such as snails, slugs and voles, that eat clover. Other clover plants that do not make cyanide are found in climates with colder temperatures.
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Earth's Oldest Tree Had Fronds, Not Leaves
Science & Tech  (tags: tree, flora, botany, plant evolution, palm tree, forest, climate )

Rooibos
- 950 days ago - planetark.com
The branches of Earth's oldest tree probably waved in the breeze like a modern palm, scientists said on Wednesday, based on two intact tree fossils that help explain the evolution of forests and their influence on climate.
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