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	<description>Gardening for fun and wildlife at the edge of Houston's piney woods</description>
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		<title>Plant rhododendrons to protect from bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plants emit compounds to both attract and repel insects. Plants planted near rhododendrons can absorb and emit chemicals given off by rhododendrons to protect themselves from insects.
 Scandinavian Scientists have discovered that a species of tree defends itself from herbivore attack by using chemicals emitted by neighbouring plants. The study, published today in New Phytologist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameo Quince ( Rosaceae Chaenomeles )</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in Boston I had a quince that came with our home outside my office window.  It was the first plant to flower every spring and my favorite.
Last fall I found a Cameo Quince and put it outside my office window down here in Houston.  It was the first plant to bloom in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phosphate poor soils increase hairy roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plants grown in soils low in phosphates grow hairy roots in the search for nutrients.  Now scientists have discovered the gene that turns on hairy roots and hope to use it to develop food crops that will grow in poor soils or with less fertilizer.
When crops such as barley and wheat are grown on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trees retaliate when their fig wasps don&#8217;t service them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem trees are not as dumb as they first appear.  When wasps try to lay eggs from outside the flower with out pollinating the flower, instead of inside the flower while spreading pollen the trees drop the fruit containing the baby wasps to death.
While trees often drop unpollinated flowers, they will often [...]]]></description>
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