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Plant scientist turned science journalist, writing among other things about plants. I am based in the Netherlands, so next to English post maybe in Dutch. You can visit my website on http://plantenzo.net/en-2/
Still the main suggestion holds, at least for carrot cells, that there is a receptor that senses wavelenghts of 260nm, which is not further investigated.
When I have time I will do some more digging and write a post about it.
Thanks
Memory does that sometimes.
The other candidate, not comming from Gareth Jenkins is this one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Which does suggests there is a receptor that senses 260nm.
Could not find any paper of Gareth Jenkins that mentioned the 260nm the closest I got was this one pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8989887/
Sorry, I found the earlier publications
An extra UV photoreceptor would indeed be interresting to find.
The earliest paper from Gareth Jenkins is this one from 2001: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/...
Does the suggestion come from this paper?
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Extra bonus points if you can tell why the particular study/discovery is interesting and deserves more of attention.
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What biological mystery have you been fascinated by?
At the moment I am drawn to the border between chemistry and biology. Here life looks a lot like a set of chemical reactions and seem to operate via logic gates. But bundle them all together and somehow they become more than just the sum of its parts, they become a living organism.
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Wow me with your plant science. But maybe read this article first.
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So that likely also translates to what term is used to describe botany/plant science in popular science magazines, newspapers, and blogs. Some terms might attract more readers than others.
So if there is something in the term plant science that might put off people from reading stories about plant science/botany research I like to know.
That's why I like to hear your perspective.
Before I asked the plant science/botany question, I was asking how I can help plant scientist with improving the visability of plant science/botany. Only to be asked why it was called plant science and not botany in the first place.
So would you prefer that they use the term botany for the study of plants irrespective of the form that study takes?
That is a good question, my feeling it probably it was a bit of all the options you mention. But the distinguishing between botanist and plant scientists has been going on for a while, at least for the last 25 years. Maybe some one who is a bit longer in the field can answer.
Why don't we call everything that we do under the term 'plant science' botany? And what do you consider both of them to cover?
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I just got on LinkedIn the question why the term 'plant science' took over from botany. Not knowing the answer, but always seen it as two separated but related fields, I looked up the definition of botany, finding it and plant science are one and the same. My question to you👇
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You can read more about this study in Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture: scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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So, it came as a bit of a bummer that intercropping spring oats with narrow leaved lupins resulted in an increase of the toxic quinolizidine alkaloids in the lupins. The researchers presume that the oats are releasing chemicals that stress the lupin plants. 2/3
Not all neighbours are friends
Intercropping is one way of increasing biodiversity in agricultural fields. And that biodiversity helps to keep the pest in check, so the farmer needs to use less pesticides. With the right pair the farmer might even increase its yield.
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