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Growth and water use of the potato variety Record on contrasting sites
(1990-05-08)A series of experiments was conducted at three contrasting sites (Cambridge University Farm, Gleadthorpe and Terrington Experimental Husbandry Farms) in four years (1985-88) to examine the effect of site, season and husbandry ... -
Capturing Photosynthetic Traits from the Progenitors of Wheat
(2019-07-20)Bottlenecks exist in raising wheat yield, which are associated with the constriction of available genetic diversity in the modern wheat gene pool and difficulties in improving photosynthesis during the growing season. Using ... -
Exploring the diversity of epidermal pavement cell shapes
(2019-04-27)Pavement cells in the leaf epidermis can exhibit a wide variety of shapes. Undulations in the anticlinal cell wall are a particularly interesting feature present in many model species: for example, Arabidopsis thaliana, ... -
A METE mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii provides new perspectives on the evolution of vitamin B12 auxotrophy
(2019-04-30)Vitamin B12 is synthesised only by prokaryotes yet is widely required by eukaryotes as an enzyme cofactor. Roughly half of all algae require vitamin B12, and the phylogenetic distribution of this trait suggests that it has ...
