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17 May 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Fungi Provide an Early Warning System for Plants

by Susan Langthorp
Fungus alerts plants to aphid attack
12 May 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Carnivorous Plant Ejects Junk DNA

by Paul Gabrielsen
Humped bladderwort's genome is only 3% non-gene, the inverse of humans
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6 May 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Shhh, the Plants Are Talking

by Andrew Porterfield
Study suggests plants may have a surprising way to communicate
9 April 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: How to Get Bedbugs to 'Leaf' You Alone

by Traci Watson
Researchers discover how an unusual form of pest control works
19 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Snap! How Carnivorous Plants Capture Prey

by Elizabeth Norton
Researchers untangle mechanism that causes leaves to curl around insects
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19 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Cotton Candy for Plants

by Traci Watson
Plants like their sap sugary
1 March 2013 | ScienceNOW

Fungus, Get Off My Lawn!

by Elizabeth Pennisi
Symbiosis aside, infected grass produces more seeds, less pollen
22 January 2013 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Why Are There Holes in the Swiss Cheese Plant?

by Charles Q. Choi
Missing leaf area may serve a surprising purpose
4 January 2013 | ScienceNOW

Simple Physics May Limit the Size of Leaves

by Adrian Cho
Argument could explain the maximum height of trees, too
18 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

One-Way Journey to the Death Pool

by Traci Watson
Pitcher plant sends ants slip-sliding to their doom
11 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

Video: Splash-Cups Sow Seeds

by Sarah C. P. Williams
Specially shaped flowers speed up raindrops to disperse their offspring
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6 December 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Plants ... in ... Space!

by Sid Perkins
Researchers test how roots grow in the absence of gravity
28 November 2012 | ScienceNOW

Taking a Slice at the Wheat Genome

by Elizabeth Pennisi
First pass at wheat DNA yields 95,000 genes across three genomes
26 November 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: The Secret of the Black Dahlia

by Helen Fields
Scientists unravel the origins of the flower’s rarest hue
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19 October 2012 | ScienceNOW

Caesar, the Orchid Chief

by David Malakoff
Temple erected by Roman emperor among earliest evidence of orchids in Western art
26 September 2012 | ScienceNOW

Video: Sundews Snap to Nab Insect Prey

by Elizabeth Pennisi
Fast-action leaf tendrils catapult insects into leaf center
12 September 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Lonely Plant Enlists Ants

by Helen Fields
Three ant species help cliff-dwelling plant reproduce
10 September 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: The Bluest Fruit

by Emily Underwood
Metallic-blue African fruit outshines other animals and plants
30 August 2012 | ScienceNOW

Amazon Seeds Its Own Rain

by Sid Perkins
Tiny salt particles expelled from fungi, plants serve as seeds for forest's precipitation
30 August 2012 | ScienceNOW

Video: How Cucumber Tendrils Curl

by Emily Underwood
Spiraling fibers act as springs to hoist cucumber plants toward the sun
21 August 2012 | ScienceNOW

Metal Nanoparticles Hurt Soybean Growth

by Robert F. Service
Tiny materials appear to disrupt the plant's ability to pull nitrogen from the air and use it as fertilizer
18 July 2012 | ScienceNOW

Moss Sex Driven By Scent

by Gisela Telis
Odors draw tiny, sperm-carrying critters to plants
11 July 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Will the Genome Save the Banana?

by Kai Kupferschmidt
Fruit is finally sequenced, leading to hopes of breeding tougher varieties
20 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Don't Go Into the Light

by Krystnell A. Storr
Chilean wineberry must shun sun to avoid being lunch
14 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

A Three-Way Partnership at the Bottom of the Sea

by Sarah C. P. Williams
Bivalves, bacteria, and seagrass help each other thrive in underwater meadows
14 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Spit It Out!

by Jane J. Lee
Disgusting seeds of Middle Eastern plant use rodents to their advantage
13 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Video: Drip, Drip, Snatch!

by Nicholas St. Fleur
When rain falls, insects plummet into the acid bath of pitcher plants
7 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

Life Blooms Under Arctic Ice

by Carolyn Gramling
Researchers discover green blooms of phytoplankton more than a meter below the surface
6 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Unraveling the Mystery of Self-Planting Seeds

by Jon Cartwright
A simple model shows how seeds can drill themselves into the ground
5 June 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Bees' Flower Power

by Sarah C. P. Williams
The color of Australia's flowers has evolved to mesh with the vision of Australia's insects
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30 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Tapping the Tomato's Secrets

by Gisela Telis
Genome reveals fruit's history
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17 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: The Secret History of the Domesticated Apple

by Sam Kean
Genetic analysis reveals new clues to the origin of one of our favorite fruits
17 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Every (Plant) Sperm Is Sacred

by Daniel Strain
Pollen grains steer clear of already-fertilized eggs
2 May 2012 | ScienceNOW

Plant Experiments Underestimate Climate Change Effects

by Elizabeth Pennisi
Plants are more sensitive to global warming than tests suggest
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16 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Boasting Penguins, Resilient Corals, and More

by David Grimm and Sarah Crespi
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
15 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Grazed Grasslands Are Biodiversity Hot Spots

by Elizabeth Pennisi
Small patches of meadow sport surprising number of species
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9 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Stowaway Seeds, Sicilian Wine and Ötzi the Iceman

by Meghna Sachdev and Kerry Klein
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
6 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

Ancient Palm Not So Ancient After All

by Sarah Zielinski
Once thought to be a remnant of the Australian outback's lusher past, red cabbage palms may have been imported by indigenous migrants
5 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

Plants Gone Wild: Antarctica Edition

by Sid Perkins
Tourists and scientists are ferrying seeds of invasive species to the coldest continent
1 March 2012 | ScienceNOW

Trees Survived Ice Age Chill in Scandinavia

by Michael Balter
Ancient DNA analyses show that even as glaciers blanketed the planet, spruce and pine trees managed to survive in refuges in Scandinavia
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