Seven thousand botanists have never come together in one place before. But we are all meeting at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, #IBC2017, this week, in a stunning display of not only the diversity of...
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Preparing for #IBC2017 and tweeting from China
Six years after IBC18 in Melbourne comes the International Botanical Congress in Shenzen. Yet it might be quieter on social media than the 2011 conference. We have made plans.
Climate change could increase biodiversity – if a location already has biodiversity
Climate change could increase biodiversity with a couple of provisos, and those provisos are important.
JD Hooker Bicentenary
It’s conference season, and we’re starting to visit conferences from the blog. Friday was the JD Hooker Bicentennial Meeting at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. We have a soft spot for JD Hooker as...
Endemism Hotspots as Climate Change Refugia: A Special Issue of Annals of Botany
Centers of endemism have long been of interest to biogeographers, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists, and more recently to conservation biologists, who often recognize them as biodiversity hotspots and priorities...
Plant immunity: A Special Issue of Annals of Botany
Plants are constantly exposed to a range of pathogens and pests, with the emergence of new virulent pathogen races responsible for considerable global crop losses every year. Progress in research in recent decades has...
Roots Down Under: A special issue of Annals of Botany
Plant productivity is very dependent on favourable interactions between the roots and soil. These interactions not only drive water and nutrient acquisition but they also affect the release of signals that influence all...
The European Space Agency goes back to its roots
The roots are Arabidopsis roots. They’ll be flying, along with the rest of the plant, on a parabolic flight to see how they react to zero gravity and hypergravity. Franck Ditengou of the University of Freiburg in...
Robert Raguso will reveal The “invisible hand” of floral scent at BOTANY 2015
The Botanical Society of America meeting will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada July 25-29, 2015. This year Dr Robert Raguso of Cornell University will be delivering the Annals of Botany Lecture. The “invisible...
Mnemonics are an Effective Tool for Adult Beginners Learning Plant Identification
Mnemonics produce the highest retention rates of species identification.
Effect of light on anatomical and biochemical aspects of hybrid larch embryos
In larch embryos, light has a negative effect on protein accumulation, but a positive effect on phenol accumulation.
Growth responses of the mangrove Avicennia marina to salinity
Avicennia marina is an obligate halophyte, requiring saline conditions for development.
Phytomonas: Trypanosomatids Adapted to Plant Environments
Phytomonas parasites have now been isolated across the globe from members of 24 different plant families.
Phylogenetic relationships in Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae), one of the great flowering plant radiations
The largest subfamily of orchids represents one of the most significant diversifications among flowering plants.
