Labelled by Charles Darwin as a “most wonderful” plant, the Venus flytrap is more than a carnivorous curiosity. The rapid closing of its leaves when brushed by prey offers researchers a way to investigate how plants sense their environment through … Continue reading
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Venus flytrap mechanism could shed light on how plants sense touch
Categories: Cell Biology | Journal Club | Plant Biology
Tagged calcium channel, FLYCATCHER1, ion channel, protein, sense of touch, venus flytrap
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Plants sense temperature with help of elegant protein
How plants sense temperature is a longstanding and little-understood question. Researchers have discovered some of the mechanisms involved. A recent study in Nature adds a new mechanism—among the first in which the biophysical behavior of a single protein regulates the … Continue reading
Categories: Journal Club | Plant Biology
Tagged amino acids, Arabidopsis, ELF3, flowering, meristem, NTL8, protein, temperature, thermosensing
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Journal Club: Protein vs protein, study comprehensively compares the environmental impacts of livestock and seafood
The most environmentally friendly protein sources include clams, sardines, and cod. Not surprisingly, beef has the worst environmental impact. Somewhat surprisingly, farmed salmon is relatively innocuous; but catfish is not. These are the conclusions of a recent study that compares … Continue reading
Categories: Agriculture | Ecology | Environmental Sciences | Journal Club | Sustainability Science
Tagged beef, greenhouse gas, nutrition, protein, salmon, shellfish
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