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When the scientists broke the DNA in the gene responsible for creating the red pigment, lycopene, many tomato plants produced yellow fruits - and some of the fruits had yellow (mutant) and red (normal) segments. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

What is red on the outside and delicious on the inside

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A white dresser. New works have shown that some plants such as white sedum, a relative of cabbage and mustard, produce proteins that participate in the development and function of light-sensitive organelles, the most basic eyes found in single-celled organisms such as green algae. Photo: Dawid Skalec / Wikimedia.

Do plants see the world around them?

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Ignore the mustache and teeth - these are plants. the naked rat Photo: Thomas Park / UIC

The naked rat develops the survival properties of a plant in the absence of oxygen

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The plant Arabidopsis, after genetic engineering (right) during which 11 genes involved in the production of cholesterol were inserted into it, produces cholesterol in a quantity 15 times greater than a normal white Arabidopsis (left). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

green cholesterol

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Fairy circles in Namibia. Source: Thorsten Becker.

The secret behind the fairy circles

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14,000 year old wild pea seeds; The "ancestral mother" of the modern Pole.

The search for the wild pea

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The sand dune (Heterotheca subaxillaris). Photo: Janet Tarbox / flickr.

The invader who takes over the coastal strip

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tomato. Source: Wikimedia / Manjithkaini.

Why not peel a tomato

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The swamp carps. Photo: Shimi Raf

summer seeds

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the process of photosynthesis. Illustration: shutterstock

Turn off lights

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Isolation of the gene for asexual reproduction in plants. Tel Aviv University

Researchers from Tel Aviv University succeeded in isolating a gene that activated an asexual reproduction mechanism in plants

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Photograph of the green alga Spirogyra [courtesy of Gert Hansen, SCCAP, Copenhagen]

Is the origin of terrestrial plants in terrestrial and not marine algae as believed until now?

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After the plastic flowers of the spikes are printed layer by layer, they are "planted" in the spines of Wisconsin. Credit: Chicago Botanic Garden

Printing and a thorn in it / Debra Weiner

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popcorn. Photo: shutterstock

An introductory course to the physics of popcorn / Rachel Nauer

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coffee. Illustration: shutterstock

Save the coffee / Hilary Rosner

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The skeleton flower - turns transparent in the rain. Screenshot from YOUTUBE - The image is taken from the website of the flower delivery company Interflora

A drop of transparency

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flower garden Photo: shutterstock

The "terrible" mystery of evolution

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Emborla. From Wikipedia

The origin of flowers: Decoding the genome of a tropical plant provides insight into the evolution of flowering plants

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A cactus garden near Marrakesh, Morocco. Photo: shutterstock

A prickly pain reliever / Arlen Weinraub

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Fossilized stamen of a 249 million year old plant causes the date of the beginning of flower plants to be moved back 100 million years. Photo: University of Zurich

Flowering plants were here 100 million years earlier than previously thought

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Fairy circle in southern Namibia. Photo: shutterstock

"Fairy Circles" or just evolution in action?

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Potato sprouting. Photo: shutterstock

Weizmann Institute scientists discovered how toxic substances are formed in potatoes

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Testing food plants in the laboratory. Photo: shutterstock

An accidental discovery by a Technion researcher may strengthen the resistance of food plants against drought

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A larva of the parasitoid Endaphis after emerging from the body of its host, the banana aphid. Photo: from the original article, courtesy of Frédéric Muratori

The enemy within: the fugitive

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Extremely fast nectar collection

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