True Facts: Plants That Explode

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Credits:

Dr Justin F. Jorge
Dr Dwight L. Whitaker, Pomona College
The Patek Lab
Dr Philippe Marmottant, LIPhy CNRS Grenoble
Dr Tom Lindtner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr Callin Switzer, University of Washington
Dr Simon Poppinga, Botanical Garden, TU Darmstadt
Dr Robert Deegan, University of Michigan
Dr Shuto Ito, University of Kiel
Dr Dennis Evangelista
John Innes Centre, Germplasm Resources team, led by Dr Noam Chayut. The GR is supported by UKRI-BBSRC
BYUI

Read more about the JIC Germplasm Resources Unit https://www.jic.ac.uk/research-impact/germplasm-resource-unit/

Browse and order from JIC Germplasm Resources’s public seed collections: https://www.seedstor.ac.uk/

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Deegan, R.D. Finessing the fracture energy barrier in ballistic seed dispersal. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01977.x

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