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Alun Salt

Alun (he/him) is the Producer for Botany One. It's his job to keep the server running. He's not a botanist, but started running into them on a regular basis while working on writing modules for an Interdisciplinary Science course and, later, helping teach mathematics to Biologists. His degrees are in archaeology and ancient history.
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Pentalagus furnessi, the Amami rabbit.
Close Encounters

Goth Rabbits spread Vampire Plants

Rabbits tend to nibble on vegetation rather than dry fruits, but the black Amami rabbits of Japan seem to be eating the fruits and spreading the seeds of an unusual plant.

by Alun SaltJanuary 27, 2023January 27, 2023
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Cells, Genes & Molecules

Does the fungus Botrytis cinerea break plants with a sledgehammer or a series of specialised tools?

The fungus Botrytis cinerea can infect many plants, but how can it get past so many different defences? Does it have a variety of tools or one highly effective tool?

by Alun SaltJanuary 17, 2023January 17, 2023
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Close Encounters

Flowers play a key role in flight control for bumblebees

A bee can approach a flower from any direction, but markings on the flower help guide bees in the most effective way, like a natural air traffic control.

by Alun SaltJanuary 16, 2023January 16, 2023
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Close Encounters

A parasitic plant can cause an invasive plant’s allies to switch sides

Scaldweed, Cuscuta grovonii, can prevent an invasive plant from using soil microbes to help invade territory – and the parasite can even become more vicious by using those same microbes against its invasive host.

by Alun SaltJanuary 13, 2023January 13, 2023
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Cells, Genes & Molecules

How does the corpse flower’s scent change over time?

The Titan arum produces a smell like rotting flesh. Now botanists have analysed the chemicals and found that the smell changes over the two days that the plant flowers.

by Alun SaltJanuary 11, 2023January 11, 2023
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Growth & Development

Botanists find a cool way to preserve an endangered plant’s seeds

If you wonder how cool cool is, it’s at least -196 ℃ (-320 ℉).

by Alun SaltJanuary 10, 2023January 10, 2023
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A James Bond like character among an extraordinarily lush collection of leaves in a botanic garden.
Ecosystems

Yew Only Live Twice

Biologists have talked about bringing back extinct species like the dodo, but now botanists have drawn up a list of extinct plants that might be able to return to the wild.

by Alun SaltJanuary 5, 2023January 3, 2023
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Ecosystems

Streetlamps create an artificial summer for urban trees

The long days of summer are stretching into winter, with LED street lights replacing the retreating sun.

by Alun SaltJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 2023
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Close Encounters

In Madagascar, the lemurs need the trees, and the trees need the lemurs

Hikori Sato explains why a living forest isn’t just a collection of trees.

by Alun SaltNovember 22, 2022November 30, 2022
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In Brief Video

Learn how to look at Lichen

April Windle presents The Wonderful World of Lichens: Introduction to Saving Devon’s Treescapes

by Alun SaltNovember 22, 2022November 21, 2022
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Growth & Development In Brief

When you don’t kill weeds you teach them how to survive

It’s not your imagination, some plants are prepared for your hoe when you try to eradicate them from your garden.

by Alun SaltNovember 21, 2022November 24, 2022
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In Brief Video

Bloom in the desert

The best botanist on YouTube gives a guided tour of the Chihuahua Desert.

by Alun SaltNovember 20, 2022November 29, 2022
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In Brief Plants & People

Now embedding social media on the new design

We’ll be aiming to expand the range of what we can share.

by Alun SaltNovember 20, 2022November 24, 2022
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Ecosystems

Botanists investigate fairy circles in the desert

When plants in the Namib desert suffer from water stress, strange things happen.

by Alun Salt, EurekalertOctober 21, 2022October 21, 2022
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