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How does drought influence the photochemical performance of reproductive structures of native and exotic bunchgrasses of the Great Basin?

You can read the blog post at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/photochemical-performance-of-bunchgrass-reproductive-structures/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plab076

A successful plant model has now been parameterized to include soybean growth under elevated CO2.

You can read this post online at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/computational-model-predicts-soybean-response-to-climate-change/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diab032

Seed production of flowering plants is influenced by water availability and pollen deposition, but is there an interaction between these factors?

You can read the blog post at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/interactive-effects-of-drought-and-pollen-intensity-on-seed-production/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plab074

Research published in Phytobiomes shows that cover crops could help improve the health of crops.

You can read the blog post at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/pathogens-cant-hide-under-the-covers/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1094/pbiomes-04-21-0029-r

An interactive method for creating and calibrating developmental plant models expressed using L-systems

You can read this post online at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/creating-visually-realistic-plant-images-to-train-neural-networks/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diab039

Heat stress can have transgenerational effects on a plant's offspring but how important are the timing and frequency of these events?

Read the blog post at https://www.botany.one/2022/01/transgenerational-effects-of-heat-stress-in-arabidopsis-thaliana/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plab064

A new model produces 3D trees that are close to reality using predicted data.

You can read this post online at https://www.botany.one/2022/01/deep-learning-techniques-used-to-predict-missing-data/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diab036

A study of two species of grass in China finds that they have developed different methods to cope with the stress of saline-alkali soils.

You can read the post at https://www.botany.one/2022/01/grass-finds-more-than-one-way-to-survive-in-saline-soil/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-021-03401-y

The answer is not a simple yes, but research suggests that plants could help clean up the planet in several different directions.

You can read the original post at https://www.botany.one/2022/01/can-botany-help-remove-microplastics-from-the-environment/

The use of Jupyter notebooks makes model creation and execution more accessible.

You can read this post online at https://www.botany.one/2022/01/a-new-virtual-modeling-environment-for-plant-models

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diab040