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BIOETHICAL CONCERNS. "After the publication of the first synthetic genome by Craig Venter's group and the accompanying media coverage about "life" being created, President Obama requested the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to study synthetic biology." https://lnkd.in/dQ84mU3 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS yet another example of old wisdom from other cultures being not transmitted, and thus being lost; however, curious scientists have dug up obscure publications and completed rigorous validation and mechanistic investigations into these plant phenomena. However, the translation from bench to field, is probably still a very long way away. View in LinkedIn

THE GREEN HOPE. "It is possible that chemical plant growth regulators or chemical plant growth retardants, which are frequently used in horticulture, can be replaced by an appropriate mechanical stress, that is an environment-friendly treatment." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

GENETIC ASSUMPTION. "The emergence of the flowering plants within the plant kingdom, or mammalian vertebrates, must surely have been marked by recognizable changes in the genome." https://lnkd.in/eNHFjJ8 View in LinkedIn

CONSERVED REGULATOR. "Given that the Paf1 complex is conserved across kingdoms and because animals also alter their body plan in response to repeated mechanical stresses, these findings also raise the possibility of a common mechanism for recording multiple mechanical deformations and translating them into developmental changes." https://lnkd.in/dv9swtZ View in LinkedIn

CRITICAL THRESHOLD. "Understanding the mechanisms underlying the morphological divergence of species is one of the central goals of evolutionary biology. How many genes contribute to species divergence?" https://lnkd.in/dGSGXuT View in LinkedIn

BROAD EFFECTS OF REGULATORS. "These lines of evidence link VIP3 to stem thigmomorphogenesis. We also present evidence that other components of the Paf1 complex are required for thigmomorphic responses in both the stem and the root." https://lnkd.in/dv9swtZ View in LinkedIn

GENOTYPE ASSUMPTION. "One of the great challenges in molecular and evolutionary biology is to explain the link between giant evolutionary leaps, such as the colonization of land by plants or the emergence of vertebrates, and the underlying genetic and genomic changes. For a long time, biologists thought that such profound changes in phenotype would be accompanied—if not driven by—equally dramatic upheavals at the genetic level." https://lnkd.in/eNHFjJ8 View in LinkedIn

REGULATOR EVIDENCE. "We present four lines of evidence to support the conclusion that a lesion in VIP3 is responsible for the thigmomorphic defects seen in ths1 mutants." https://lnkd.in/dv9swtZ View in LinkedIn

REGULATION VS NOVELTY. "The great leap forward. Major evolutionary jumps might be caused by changes in gene regulation rather than the emergence of new genes." https://lnkd.in/eNHFjJ8 View in LinkedIn