A warming Antarctic is changing how mosses have sex
Mosses are reacting to rising temperatures in the Antarctic in different ways. The tiny plants could cause big changes to the food web.
Plant Science from Cell Biology to Ecosystems
Mosses are reacting to rising temperatures in the Antarctic in different ways. The tiny plants could cause big changes to the food web.
Male flowers of Aconitum protect their pollen by adding alkaloids. Without pollen as a reward, botanists asked how the flower compensated pollinators.
Students at Augustana University have found out how insects see carnivorous plants by building on each other’s work in a series of projects.
Endophytic bacteria, microbes living in plant tissue, can change how a plant grows. But experiments with microbe communities shows that it’s not in a predictable way.
Buck Rogers found the land around New Chicago in the 25th century was polluted and barren. But pollution might not be a long-term problem if you have the right Brassica.
We’re used to microplastics being an environmental hazard in the oceans, but research confirms it can be a problem on land too.
Far from being an oxymoron, an educational intervention shows that urban botany can have tremendous value.
To pollinate you need the right pollen, but what happens when you arrive in new territory everyone you share pollinators with has the wrong pollen?
A plant’s survival in the location can depend on the microscopic life in the soil.
If the parasitic plant dodder taps its host with a straw, then it’s a specialised straw than can filter out some nutrients that the plant isn’t using.
Forests that have coped with fires in the past may struggle to regenerate as climate change increases aridity in the Mediterranean Basin.
Becoming an early flowering plant may be a problem if your pollinators are asleep and your herbivores are not.
Bending rose stems dramatically increases photosynthesis.
Are you getting the hazelnuts you pay for? How do you know? A new technique offers an alternative to subjective tests like flavour.