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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the plant-biology desk.
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A two-year field study of 60 Zea accessions found that some had 20–40% of their nitrogen derived from the atmosphere. Aerial-root traits changed more consistently across the domestication continuum than this measure of biological nitrogen fixation.
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A bioRxiv preprint describes a convolutional neural network that measured Douglas-fir pollen germination and elongation across temperatures from 5 to 40°C. The study found narrow, distinct thermal optima for the two reproductive processes, mostly between 19 and 23°C.