Esta no es una pregunta que debiéramos hacernos mientras nos comemos una deliciosa ensalada verde, ¿o tal vez sí? Las plantas no se pueden mover por lo tanto necesitan ser resilientes al estrés. Para protegerse, activan una compleja red de genes que se traducen en cambios en el metabolismo, nuevas enzimas y compuestos químicos. Cuando […]
This is not something that we necessarily ask ourselves as we tuck into a lovely green salad, but maybe we should! Plants cannot move so they need to be resilient against stresses. To protect themselves they switch on a complex network of genes which in turn are translated into changes in metabolism, new enzymes and […]
Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of the lace plant, Aponogeton madagascariensis. This exotic species native to streams in Madagascar has travelled far to become the focus of the lab of Prof Arunika Gunawardena at the University of Dalhousie in Halifax Nova Scotia. I was fortunate this week to be invited as external […]
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