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Plants warn each other of imminent danger
Plants send signals into the atmosphere to communicate with other plants and animals: when a plant is attacked by a pathogen or a herbivore it releases certain compounds into the air that "warn" others of the imminent danger so that they can prepare themselves. These...
Ecometabolomics: a new instrument for ecological research
Metabolomic techniques aim to determine the maximum number of metabolites present in an organism at a given time. These techniques have been used for a long time in the context of biomedicine and now are starting to be used in the field of ecology. Researchers at...
The world’s largest database on wild plants is published
Scientists from CREAF and CSIC have collaborated with scientists from 105 institutions worldwide to gather and sort three million data on 69,000 species of wild plants representative of the 300,000 which are currently described in the five continents. This...
