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Person examining a fern frond beside an open field guide in a dense forest
Digest

New Zealand Ferns and Allied Plants: A 1989 Field Guide

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Diagram of rice plants and markers for Hd1, Hd6 and Ehd1 introgression into Koshihikari.
Explainer

Koshihikari rice: marker-assisted heading-date gene transfer

10 min
Illustrated mushrooms rising from forest litter, representing visible fungal fruiting bodies.
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State of the World’s Fungi 2018: what the report found

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Illustrated branch bearing varied wild fruits against green Central Asian foothills.
Explainer

Wild fruit diversity and the origins of cultivated trees

10 min
Purple Liatris spicata flower spikes rising above narrow green leaves in a botanical illustration.
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How vermicompost affects growth and flowering in Liatris spicata

9 min
Editorial illustration of brown coconut sugar in a bowl with coconut halves
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Sugar components of coconut sugar in Indonesia: study digest

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Close-up of alsike clover with pink-and-white globe-shaped flower heads and trifoliate leaves, with forage rows and hills behind
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Can Alsike Clover Be Bred for Bulgaria’s Lowland Pastures?

9 min
Chlorotic maize leaves beside field samples, diagnostic tools and a world map
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Maize Chlorotic Mottle Virus: Distribution, Spread and Control

9 min
Date palm seeds beside laboratory glassware for antioxidant and antibacterial analysis.
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How Tunisian Date Palm Seeds Differ in Chemistry and Bioactivity

9 min
Green Premna latifolia leaves and white flowers beside a flask of plant extract and Petri dishes, with a microscope, magnified Streptococcus bacteria and a tooth in the background.
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Premna latifolia Leaf Extracts and Laboratory Activity Against Cariogenic Bacteria

9 min
Roasted coffee beans spilling from a burlap sack beside red coffee cherries, yellow and red cocoa pods, an opened cocoa pod with white pulp, and fresh and dried tea leaves, with green plantation hills in the background.
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Coffee, Cocoa and Tea: Cultivation, Management and Production

10 min
Golden citrus fruit and a white blossom among glossy green leaves in an orchard scene.
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‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’: self-compatibility and seed abortion

9 min
Illustration of purple mangosteen fruits beside a tropical mangosteen tree, shipping boxes and a United States market display.
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Mangosteen in the United States: Cultivation, Imports and Marketing

5 min
Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia ant-plants mounted on branches in a greenhouse
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How to Grow Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia Ant-Plants

9 min
Humic extracts beside exposed crop roots, soil samples and greenhouse vegetables
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Humic Substances as Plant Biostimulants: What They Can Do

9 min
Brown-capped bolete mushrooms growing among moss and pine needles in forest
Explainer

Boletus pinetorum: A Fennoscandian Porcini Taxonomy Case

8 min
Fritillaria plantlets and small bulbs growing in sterile culture jars and dishes
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Fritillaria imperialis: In Vitro Propagation and Bulb Formation

8 min

From the archive · Plants

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PAN 19311600466 1931

Wild fruit diversity in Turkistan and the Caucasus as evidence for fruit-tree origins

0 citing domains PAN 19930319960 1992

How coconut sugar composition varied across three Indonesian regions

0 citing domains PAN 19950605594 1989

A 1989 guide to New Zealand ferns, fern allies and their habitats

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