Can This Group Revive the Finicky Corpse Flower?
If a plant is socioeconomically important and produces recalcitrant seeds—like coconuts—conservationists will often create what are called “field gene banks,”
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Plants
Restoring longleaf pines, keystone of once vast ecosystems
DESOTO NATIONAL FOREST, Miss. — When European settlers came to North America, fire-dependent savannas anchored by lofty pines with footlong
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Damage from border wall: blown-up mountains, toppled cactus
GUADALUPE CANYON, Ariz. — Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping
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