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September 2, 2024

Microscale Humidity Sensor Based on Iron-Coated Elaters of Equisetum Spores

https://doi.org/10.3390/bios14090414

Biosensors 2024, 14(9), 414

Interesting publication, but I have one remark. It may not be a big mistake, and some may consider it a trifle, but as someone who has been passionately involved with this group of plants for many years, I will write this: rather not elaters; it should be correct - hapters, i.e. dead tape-like outgrowths of the spore wall in horsetails, reacting to changes in air humidity; they are a product of the tapetum (a layer surrounding the spore-forming tissue in the organs of some plants, involved in the process of nourishing the tissue and developing spores, as well as pollen grains); in dry air they unwind, and in humid air they twist around the spore, facilitating the dispersal of spores. Elaters usually contain living cells or simply are them - hapters, on the other hand, are completely dead / warm regards, R. J. Walkowiak.

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May 18, 2024

Is DNA repair controlled by a biological logic circuit?

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-021-00360-8
Theory Biosci. 141, 41–47 (2022)

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April 13, 2024

Chloroplast genome structure analysis of Equisetum unveils phylogenetic relationships to ferns and mutational hotspot region

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1328080
Front. Plant Sci., 11 April 2024
Sec. Plant Systematics and Evolution
Volume 15 - 2024

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