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The happy tree. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Scientists debunk a myth: do trees really have feelings?

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32 plant and forest researchers from all over the world published an article in the journal Trends in Plant Science in which they examined all these claims
Wheat and rice are the most common food plants in the world. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Researchers have succeeded in deciphering the movement mechanism of the plant hormone gibberellin, which is of great importance to humanity

According to the researchers, it is a hormone, a small signal molecule, which controls the growth of plants. The decoding may help a lot in expanding agricultural crops and dealing with the global food crisis
Bacterial colonies that express different metabolites

Randomness, music and genetics

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How is the final size of the organs determined? How do they measure their size? And what makes them stop growing?

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Members of the research team, from the right: Dr. Yoav Lian, Dr. Assaf Vardi, Daniela Shatz, Shlomit Sharoni, Dr. Miguel Perda and Uri Shein

The Great Blue

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germination. Photo: Weizmann Institute

In a sharp transition

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Prof. Assaf Aharoni and Shira Mintz-Oron. Piccadilly Line. Photo by the Weizmann Institute

Plant metabolism model

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