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Article: A NATURAL DEFENSE? RED LEAVES FROM MAPLES MAY STOP OTHER PLANTS SHORT.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2005
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Byline: Sapna Kollali Staff writer
Fruitless gardeners take note: It may not be your black thumb, after all. Central New York's sugar maple trees may be to blame for your landscaping failures.
Colgate University biology professor Frank Frey says the area's abundant sugar maples may be using their red leaves to poison the competition. He and a former student have found the red pigment hinders the growth of lettuce seeds.
"This is very preliminary research," Frey said. "We may find it's true for other plants as well."
He believes the research, which he hopes to publish in a national science journal, eventually could lead to advances in ...
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... ... produce THC, which derives from a sticky resin that the plant probably uses to protect itself from being eaten, says biologist Frank Frey of Colgate University in New York. But the males among these heterosexual plants have their own challenges: They must compete ...
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