Igor Kovalchuk
Igor Kovalchuk
Most plants are adapted to their environments through generations of exposure to all elements. The adaptation process involves the best possible response to fluctuations in the environment based on the genetic and epigenetic make-up of the ...
The Barthlott effect [0.03%]
巴特洛特效应
Laurent Vonna
Laurent Vonna
In 1997, Barthlott and Neinhuis published a groundbreaking article entitled "Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces" that caused a true paradigm shift in surface science. In this article, they explai...
A blast from the past: Understanding stem cell specification in plant roots using laser ablation [0.03%]
来自过去的冲击：利用激光消融技术了解植物根部干细胞的分化过程
Wouter Smet,Ikram Blilou
Wouter Smet
In the Arabidopsis root, growth is sustained by the meristem. Signalling from organiser cells, also termed the quiescent centre (QC), is essential for the maintenance and replenishment of the stem cells. Here, we highlight three publication...
The 1991 review by Coen and Meyerowitz on the war of the whorls and the ABC model of floral organ identity [0.03%]
Coen和Meyerowitz于1991年发表的关于旋涡之战及花器官身份ABC模型的评论文章
Kay Schneitz
Kay Schneitz
The 1991 review paper by Coen and Meyerowitz on the control of floral organ development set out the evidence available at that time, which led to the now famous ABC model of floral organ identity control. The authors summarised the genetic ...
Building a pipeline to identify and engineer constitutive and repressible promoters [0.03%]
构建鉴定及工程化组成型和诱导型启动子的流程
Eric J Y Yang,Jennifer L Nemhauser
Eric J Y Yang
To support the increasingly complex circuits needed for plant synthetic biology applications, additional constitutive promoters are essential. Reusing promoter parts can lead to difficulty in cloning, increased heterogeneity between transfo...
Alexandre Berr,Marie-Edith Chabouté
Alexandre Berr
How to get a metre of DNA into a tiny space while preserving its functional characteristics? This question seems easy to pose, but the answer is far from being trivial. Facing this riddle, salvation came from technical improvements in micro...
Charles W Melnyk
Charles W Melnyk
In 1957, Skoog and Miller published their seminal work on the effects of hormones upon plant growth. By varying the concentrations of auxin and cytokinin, they observed dramatic differences in shoot and root growth from tobacco stem culture...
Robert Mayes,Joseph Dauer,David Owens
Robert Mayes
The United States National Science and Technology Council has made a call for improving STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education at the convergence of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The National...
Art-science collaborations: Generators of new ideas and serendipitous events [0.03%]
艺术与科学的合作：新观点和偶然事件的生成器
Liat Segal,Yasmine Meroz
Liat Segal
An increasing number of collaborative projects between artists and scientists raises the question regarding their value, particularly when considering the redirection of resources. Here we provide a personal account of our collaborative eff...
Quantification of pollen viability in Lantana camara by digital holographic microscopy [0.03%]
数字全息显微镜定量测定假连翘花粉活力
Vipin Kumar,Nishant Goyal,Abhishek Prasad et al.
Vipin Kumar et al.
Pollen grains represent the male gametes of seed plants and their viability is critical for sexual reproduction in the plant life cycle. Palynology and viability studies have traditionally been used to address a range of botanical, ecologic...