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Where have all the oleander bushes planted along the freeways gone?

Oleander used to be a favorite Caltrans plant because it is fast-growing, tough, and required little care. Its dense growth ...
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China to establish Central Asia plant database to boost biodiversity conservation

URUMQI, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research institute is set to establish a multilingual plant diversity database for Central Asia's arid zones, designed to bridge key gaps in biodiversity data ...

Single pollen parents in flowering plants may be more common than previously thought

While all seeds produced within a fruit have the same maternal genome, the paternal genomes of seeds can come from the pollen ...

Billions of starfish deaths traced back to bacterial culprit in largest marine epidemic

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

What the colour of your snot says about your health

Changes in our nasal secretions and new insight in nasal microbiome offer vital clues to the state of our respiratory system ...
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Chinese scientists uncover distribution pattern of dryland biocrusts for better sand control

LANZHOU -- Chinese scientists have recently uncovered the distribution pattern of dryland biocrusts, often described as the ...