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A mass of glossy oval leaves on tree-like branching stems, the money plant (Crassula ovata) is one of the most distinctive indoor plants. It is prized in China and across the globe by practitioners of ...

The microbes they discovered appeared to rely on one of two survival strategies. Some microbes had smaller, streamlined genomes built for efficiency. These organisms had evolved specialized ...

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while symbiosis also includes interactions where one species profits at the expense of the other (parasitism), as well as situations where only one species benefits, but without harming the other ...

Welcome to Purdue’s home for basic plant biology! The CPB community connects faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the plant sciences across different departments and ...

Instead of further depleting over-harvested indigenous plants for medicinal purposes, it might be possible to use the bacteria inside their roots. This would preserve at-risk plants while still ...

(2015). Plant immune system participation is vital to selectively allow colonization of beneficial nonpathogenic microbes while excluding potential pathogens. Their results showed that this ...

Besides mutualistic symbiosis, other types, such as commensalism and parasitism ... Similarly, nitrogen-fixing bacteria form a symbiotic relationship with certain plants, converting atmospheric ...