NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Wondrous Survival Strategies of Plants The circadian clock —— the ingenious mechanism enables plants to survive changing natural environments Plants cannot uproot themselves to go and find the optimal envir......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Wondrous Survival Strategies of Plants How plants gained the ability to defend themselves against “enemies” via symbiosis with microbes Over the course of their evolution, the ancestors of plants inco......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Wondrous Survival Strategies of Plants The mechanisms of photosynthesis being brought to light Photosynthesis is the reaction in which plants use light to conv......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Wondrous Survival Strategies of Plants The ingenious modes of evolution that ensured plants’ survival for 470 million years Plants cannot simply get up and move to a different environment.......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Zero Carbon Reality Developing plastic alternatives that do not burden the environment Plastics made from petrochemicals generate CO2 in their manufact......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Zero Carbon Reality Achieving a 46% cut in emissions: structural change can no longer be delayed Countries worldwide are stepping up efforts to reduce emissions ......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – An Introduction to Genome Editing Disrupting a gene to produce a “low-toxin” potato The potato (Solanum tuberosum) contains toxins called solanine a......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Abyss of Global Warming Future vision of the earth as defined by the Earth Simulator From abnormal weather conditions such as heat waves and huge typ......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Abyss of Global Warming Will “alpine plants” disappear from Japan and “bamboo” expand power!? If the air temperature rises due to climate change, the environm......
NATURE Special Feature 1 – The Abyss of Global Warming Unpredictable dramatic changes –– What is now happening to the earth We have come to frequently experience unprecedented scales of me......