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
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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.
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.
When foraging for pollen from flowers, timing can be crucial
By timing their visits to twilight, just as nocturnal flowers are opening, some bees can grab most of Pseudobombax longiflorum‘s pollen.
Climate change will hit peat bogs not so much from greater heat but from the reduced precipitation that comes with the heat
Climate change is about more than simply warming, and these other effects should not be overlooked.
Increasing the copies of genes increases the ecological niche that nettles can thrive in
Botanists find it’s easier to find the gene to cope with a problem if you carry more copies of genes.
Con el frío, el polen del arroz sufre de diversas formas mientras lucha por desarrollarse
Un equipo de botánicos en Japón ha dado un vuelco a décadas de supuestos sobre cómo el estrés por frío causa esterilidad en el polen de arroz.
Virtual conferences are more inclusive. Will that disappear when in-person conferences return?
COVID 19 may have prevented people from attending conferences in person, but the virtual alternatives have opened attendance to many more people.
Asian squirrels go nuts for nectar
A rare plant found on Thailand’s highest mountain courts an unusual pollinator.
Adaptada para matar: Cómo la planta jarro atrapa a su presa
Trees alone will not save us
There’s more recognition that ecological restoration can be an essential tool in fighting climate change, and there are many projects aimed at restoring degraded forests to capture carbon. Still, the focus on forests ignores much of the land in the tropics that would not naturally be forested. A team of scientists is arguing that people need to become aware of other habitats and their value.
Are species hiding in the Arctic?
Some of the problems that limit the number of species in the Arctic might also contribute to creating new species.
Flowers grow less yellow without sulphur, and that could affect the pollinators that need to see them
Both Van Gogh and Nature like to use sulphur-derived pigments for flowers, but what happens when there’s not enough sulphur?
In cold weather, rice pollen suffers in a variety of ways as it struggles to develop
A team of botanists in Japan have overturned decades-old assumptions about how cold stress leads to pollen sterility in rice.
Foliar nutrient allocation patterns in Banksia attenuata and B. sessilis
Banksia attenuata and Banksia sessilis are in the same genus, but their life strategies reflect how they react to poor nutrition.