The Reproducibility Crisis Has Reached Plant Biology — And the Field Is Not Taking It Seriously Enough

Audit of failure-to-replicate findings across hormone signalling, stress response, and developmental genetics. The structural incentives that produced the crisis in psychology and biomedicine are present in plant biology too — with fewer mitigating norms.

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