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Why Do Some Trees Not Lose Their Leaves During Winter?
When you've always known deciduous trees to drop their leaves in winter, seeing one that hasn't can be unsettling. Here's why trees may hold onto their leaves.
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What you didn’t know about deer antlers: Growth, shedding, and secrets of the wild
How can both be true? At the end of mating season, usually in late winter, male deer, or bucks, shed their antlers thanks to an abscission layer that forms between the antlers and the skull that ...
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COLUMN: 90 percent of corn acreage beyond dent stage
The USDA Minnesota Crop Progress and Condition for the week ending Sept. 9 reports that 90 percent of the Minnesota’s corn acreage was in or beyond the dent stage, six days ahead of the ...
Minnesota’s September corn crop progress and yield estimation
The USDA Minnesota Crop Progress and Condition for the week ending Sept. 9 reports that ninety percent of the Minnesota’s corn acreage was in or beyond the dent stage, six days ahead of the ...
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Blossoming with creative solutions for global challenges
Kwak and his team looked into abscission in plants ... state into mature epidermal cells and forms a protective cuticle layer on the plant body to prevent infections on the newly exposed surface.