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• Oilseed rape
  Brassica napus is a major focus
  for translational research building on work
  from Arabidopsis. The leaves and stems are
  commonly eaten in Southeast Asia and are often
  found in asian groceries sold as tender greens.
  Over 60% of its cultivation in the EU currently
  goes into biodiesel production. Rapeseed demands
  substantial water and N fertilization, although
  newer varieties grown in Canada have been
  reported to be more drought-tolerant.
• Jungle Night
  Amorphophallus Paeoniifolius is one of a number
  of giant arums found in tropical central
  Americas. Its close relative, Amorphophallus
  titanium, produces the largest flower in the
  world, which can grow to over 2 meters in
  height. Like many giant arums, A. paeoniifolius
  grows from an elongated tuber. The leaf
  structure, stomatal organisation and venation,
  visible here, are well-adapted for highly humid
  environments.
• Cyanobacteria
  Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae,
  obtain their energy through photosynthesis,
  making use of much the same pathways as plants.
  It is thought that modern plants arose through
  a symbiotic association with cyanobacteria,
  which have since evolved to form the chloroplasts
  of higher plants thus providing energy to the
  host. For these reasons, cyanobacteria have long
  been used as a model with which to study the
  process of photosynthesis.
• Water Scarcity
  Water scarcity and changes in the global
  environment are the most serious threats to
  global food security. Many parts of the USA,
  Australia and Asia as well as the mediterranean
  countries have seen substantial increases in
  water deficits over the past decade. Even in the
  UK, the demand for irrigation water has risen
  almost 10-fold in the past 20 years. Recurrence
  of the Dust Bowl phenomenon that devastated the
  American wheat belt is a real concern.
• Begonia
  Begonias represent one of the largest and most
  diverse genera among the angiosperms. Several
  Begonia species exhibit complex stomatal
  patterning and variable stomatal clustering,
  which may be important for their physiological
  adaptation to extreme wet environments such as
  around waterfalls, and is a focus of research
  in the Laboratory.
• Broad Bean
  Vicia faba is familiar to us as the broad bean
  or butterbean. It is a robust, upright annual
  that grows well in cooler environments. It’s
  rounded, segmented leaves are easy to dissect
  by hand and have long been a favourite for
  research on stomatal guard cells and their
  control of gas exchange in plants. Data that
  comes from studies of Vicia remains the gold
  standard in the field of membrane transport
  and its control.
• Arabidopsis Flowers
  The Arabidopsis genome was the first plant genome
  to be fully sequenced. This knowledge, together
  with a large body of mutational data, tools for
  genetic manipulation and access to closerelatives
  with varied physiological traits, greatly speeds
  fundamental research in the plant sciences.

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