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Peas n Chips: Creating food security with African Yam Bean
8 April 2021
Can one plant produce both tasty and nutritious beans and tubers? Yes, the African yam bean can. Not only does it grow high-protein edible grains and tubers, this drought-resilient crop also replenishes the soil and is highly adaptable to varying-climates.
How plant stem cells renew themselves – a cytokinin story
8 April 2021
The mechanism by which the plant hormone cytokinin controls cell division has been discovered – a breakthrough that significantly improves our understanding of how plants grow.
Integrating maths and plant science to explain how plant roots generate a hormone gradient
15 February 2021
The research team that developed a biosensor that first recorded that a distinct gradient of the plant growth hormone gibberellin correlated with plant cell size has now revealed how this distribution pattern is created in roots.
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