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Proposed model for the stepwise evolution of DELLA functions in the green lineage.

With provisional data from the Met Office showing this summer to be the UK’s hottest on record, and a drought having been declared across much of England, Professor Beverley Glover, Head of Evolution ...

PhyloDig is a command line pipeline for automated homology mining across collections of protein and coding sequence databases. It combines HMMER searches, optional Pfam domain filtering, and sequen...

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Meristem organization in land plants depends on coordinated auxin distribution, transport and response, yet how these processes are integrated during vegetative growth of the gametophyte of non-seed p...

Traditional peer review is often slowed by delays in identifying willing reviewers and waiting for completed review reports. In a 2024 pilot on the journal Biology Open, we showed that Fast & Fair pee...

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

snRNA-seq reveals shoot stem cell heterogeneity and traces their differentiation into primary stem cell types.