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Plant biotechnologists are favoring moss factories over other models to produce certain valuable proteins.

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The Hidden Dance of Plant Fertilization

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Getting to the Root of the Plant Microbiota

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Plants Defend Themselves Against Heavy Metals

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Bioengineering Interkingdom Communication

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How Do Plants Know Which Way is Up?

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Greening the Fight Against Huntington’s Disease

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Chasing the Sun

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A New Drug Fixes a Leak Caused by Bacteria

Plant (<em >Arabidopsis thaliana</em>) root tips analyzed with PHYTOMap.

Illuminating the Plant Gene Map

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How the Venus Flytrap Captures Its Prey

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CRISPR Trees Could Improve Paper Production

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Certain Tree Species Are More Susceptible to Death by Lightning

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Ten Minute Sabbatical

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Can Plants See? In the Wake of a Controversial Study, the Answer’s Still Unclear

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Plant Biologist Jane Silverthorne Dies at 69

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As Carbon Dioxide Goes Up, Plants’ Nutrient Content Declines

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Climate Change May Favor Nitrogen-Fixing Plants

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Science Snapshot: Go Forth and Multiply

Ferns bounced back much faster than other plants after the meteor impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Why Did Ferns Persist When All Other Plants Perished?

A gametophyte of the brown alga <em>Desmarestia dudresnayi</em> that has both male and female reproductive structures

Meet the Algae That Went from Male/Female to Hermaphroditic

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The Alpha-Gal Syndrome Story: How Researchers Traced a Red-Meat Allergy to Ticks

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

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Universe 25 Experiment

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A Fungus, Not Its Insect Host, Paints the World Red

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Advances in Automated RNA Library Preparation

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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