Highlights
Borrowing a Gene from the Burning Bush Plant Improves Oil Qualities in Bioenergy Crops
Scientists engineered camelina and pennycress seeds to produce nearly pure specialized oils, paving the way for improved biofuel production.

Symbiotic Fungi Flip the Script in Plant Competition
A novel test of coexistence theory shows that plants can coexist or exclude one another depending on which mycorrhizal fungi species are present.