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		<title>Tobacco plants change pollinators to ditch worms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, the hawkmoth does a good job of pollinating the plant, Nicotiana attenuata, which grows in the Western United States and flowers at night. But the hawkmoth has this annoying habit of leaving behind its eggs, which develop into caterpillars that like nothing better than to eat the plant. So N. attenuata strikes back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algae protein protects plants from too much sun</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photosynthetic organisms need to cope with a wide range of light intensities, which can change over timescales of seconds to minutes. Too much light can damage the photosynthetic machinery and cause cell death. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution were part of a team that found that specific proteins in algae can act as a safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of solar wind increases tree growth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that Galactic Cosmic Rays cause trees to grow faster. The sun has an 11 year cycle of solar spots, when there is a lull in sunspots there is a lull in solar wind. The solar wind protects us from GCRs by creating a magnetic repellent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marigolds and Nematodes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Down here on the Gulf Coast root knot nematodes can destroy gardens. Commonly people bring them home on tomato plants and once in the garden they are near impossible to eradicate. I&#8217;ve been reading &#8216;Silent Spring&#8217; in bits and pieces and tonight&#8217;s reading mentioned the use of marigolds as a treatment for root knot nematodes. [...]]]></description>
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