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On our Scoop It between April 4th and April 13th

Posted on April 13th, 2012 by annbot

These are links from our Scoop It page between April 4th and April 13th: The Importance and Challenge of rapid multiplication of Vegetative Crops in Africa | Africaseed.net Realizing the potential of Africa’s vegetative crops requires new tools for rapid multiplication of healthy and improved planting material. Bananas, plantains, cassava, potato and sweet-potato, as well as other [...]

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The answer is blowin’ in the wind…

Posted on April 13th, 2012 by Nigel Chaffey

How does a rooted-to-the-spot plant escape the attentions of would-be herbivores? Well, according to Kazuo Yamazaki in his review straightforwardly entitled ‘Gone with the wind: trembling leaves may deter herbivory’, they move, and rather rapidly, too! No, they don’t run away, but by employing rapid – though passive – movements, such as the wind-induced trembling [...]