Have you ever tried explaining something for the third time to someone? It’s tiresome, but maybe you just aren’t saying it properly. The perpetual struggle of science is this: the language simply doesn’t make sense (to anyone else, and very often most scientists).

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Plants are an incredibly versatile group of organisms that can survive in some very inhospitable locations, from acidic and nutrient-poor bogs to deserts and tundra.  Despite having to face some extreme conditions, plants have developed many ingenious methods of tolera...