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A short-cut in photosynthetic machinery can allow needles of pine trees to stay green – News-Medical.net
How can conifers that are used for example as Christmas trees keep their green needles over the boreal winter when most trees shed their leaves?
How can conifers that are used for example as Christmas trees keep their green needles over the boreal winter when most trees shed their leaves?
Science has not provided a good answer to this question but now an international team of scientists, including researchers from Umeå University, has deciphered that a short-cut in the photosynthetic machinery allows the needles of pine trees to stay green. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications.
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