Nature Plants
An online-only, monthly journal publishing the best research on plants — from their evolution, development, metabolism and environmental interactions to their societal significance.
“Chopping wood” won’t bring back encroached grasslands
“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results” (Albert Einstein). Research published recently has revealed that removing woody plants is not a useful strategy to reverse the global increase in woody plants, a phenomenon known as woody encroachment.
Adaptating a cyanobacterium to extremely high light intensities
Using adaptive evolution for making photosynthetic microbes tolerant to stressful conditions might be a shortcut for identifying protein mutations suitable to enhance the yield of crop plants.
