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• Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds 
• Honeybees (Apis mellifera) decrease the fitness of plants they pollinate | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Multiplex CRISPR editing of wood for sustainable fiber production | Science
• Prediction of on-target and off-target activity of CRISPR–Cas13d guide RNAs using deep learning | Nature Biotechnology
• Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients | Nature Plants
• ​​New Article: Masting [irregular, cyclic, synchronous, unusually large production of seeds] is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients”  – Twitter 
• The Rise and Decay of the Wood Wide Web
• Would you eat the diaper mushrooms? Reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 
• Airborne environmental DNA captures terrestrial vertebrate diversity in nature – Lynggaard – Molecular Ecology Resources – Wiley Online Library 
• A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change 
• Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi: Current Biology
• Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray: Neuron

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