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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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Ecosystems

Reverse archaeology reveals new insights into global warming

Often archaeologists will examine differences in vegetation to gain information on buried sites. Now, some botanists have reversed this and are using archaeological sites to learn about the effect of nutrient differences on plants.

by Alun SaltFebruary 23, 2022February 23, 2022
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Taxonomy & Evolution

Cycads studied to reconcile fossil and molecular evidence for evolutionary timescales

Scientists used plastomic and biogeographical data to determine when different types of cycads first evolved. Their findings challenge previous ideas about when cycads first appeared and where they come from.

by GPT-3, Alun SaltFebruary 9, 2022February 9, 2022
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Cells, Genes & Molecules

Grass finds more than one way to survive in saline soil

A study of two species of grass in China finds that they have developed different methods to cope with the stress of saline-alkali soils.

by Alun SaltJanuary 27, 2022January 27, 2022
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Ecosystems

Can Botany help remove microplastics from the environment?

The answer is not a simple yes, but research suggests that plants could help clean up the planet in several different directions.

by Alun SaltJanuary 26, 2022January 26, 2022
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Growth & Development

A class of chemicals that produce many of the colours of petals also regulates root response in White Lupins

Flavonoids help fine-tune a lupin’s response to low phosphorus availability.

by Alun SaltJanuary 24, 2022January 24, 2022
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Plants & People

We won’t be retweeting some job adverts. Here’s why.

More and more people are using images to get round character limits on Twitter, but some people are getting left behind.

by Alun SaltJanuary 20, 2022January 20, 2022
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Close Encounters

Hawkmoths prefer for the young to eat with the competition

Food is critical for larvae development, so a good insect should lay her eggs away from other competition for food. That’s why scientists were surprised that female hawkmoths chose plants hosting competitors when laying eggs.

by Alun SaltJanuary 18, 2022January 18, 2022
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Taxonomy & Evolution

What does chlorophyll leave behind after a billion years?

Scientists have identified one of the earliest multicellular algae. Their new method could help unlock much more information from Precambrian fossils.

by Alun SaltJanuary 12, 2022January 12, 2022
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Close Encounters

Herbivores can cause dioecious plants to partly swap sex

Rather than inherently being ‘male’ or ‘female’, Mercurialis annua can produce flowers as a plastic response to its environment.

by Alun SaltJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022
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Growth & Development

An unexpected killer lurks deep in Italian lakes

You would expect to see flowers of Utricularia australis on display just above the surface of a pond or lake. Now botanists have found open U. australis flowers on a lakebed over four metres below the surface.

by Alun SaltJanuary 5, 2022January 5, 2022
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Ecosystems

When landscapes are abandoned, do butterflies flee?

Agricultural intensification affects butterfly populations, but so does the abandonment of farmland.

by Alun SaltDecember 23, 2021December 22, 2021
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Growth & Development

Warm nights without respite accelerates the death of seedlings in a drought

A combination of morphological and physiological traits contribute to drought mortality, along with responses to night warming.

by Alun SaltDecember 22, 2021December 22, 2021
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Growth & Development

Botanists find that some herbaceous use fire as a signal to prepare for boosted flowering in the following year

In the prairies of Minnesota, Liatris aspera is almost a real-life phoenix

by Alun SaltDecember 20, 2021December 21, 2021
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Ecosystems

Botanists develop a model for times when a plant thriving in a garden is a matter of life and death

A new model can help botanic gardens discover where they should source endangered plants when they want to aid conservation efforts.

by Alun SaltDecember 17, 2021December 17, 2021
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In addition to Botany One, the company currently publishes three journals, the Annals of Botany, AoB PLANTS, and in silico Plants.

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