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Dale Maylea

Dale Maylea was a system for adding value to press releases. Now he's a manual algorithm for blogging any papers that Alun Salt thinks are interesting. The idea being telling people about an interesting paper NOW beats telling people about an interesting paper at some time in the future, when there's time to sit down and take things slowly.
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Ecosystems

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.

by Dale MayleaNovember 20, 2019November 20, 2019
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News in Brief Scientific Reports

Aconitum offers bees more nectar to carry its toxic pollen

Male flowers of Aconitum protect their pollen by adding alkaloids. Without pollen as a reward, botanists asked how the flower compensated pollinators.

by Dale MayleaNovember 19, 2019November 18, 2019
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BioOne News in Brief

UV light can guide flies to an Utterly Voracious plant

Students at Augustana University have found out how insects see carnivorous plants by building on each other’s work in a series of projects.

by Dale MayleaNovember 18, 2019November 18, 2019
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American Journal of Botany News in Brief

Bacteria living within plants can change them in unpredictable ways

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.

by Dale MayleaNovember 6, 2019November 5, 2019
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Applied Geochemistry News in Brief

Poisoned soils could be healed with the right kind of cress

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.

by Dale MayleaOctober 29, 2019
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News in Brief PlantsPeoplePlanet

Microplastic infill for artificial turfs harms grassland species

We’re used to microplastics being an environmental hazard in the oceans, but research confirms it can be a problem on land too.

by Dale MayleaOctober 23, 2019October 23, 2019
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Journal of Biological Education News in Brief

A school curriculum could make New York City seem less grey and more green

Far from being an oxymoron, an educational intervention shows that urban botany can have tremendous value.

by Dale MayleaOctober 22, 2019October 18, 2019
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American Journal of Botany News in Brief

Invasive plants’ success may start with invasive pollen

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?

by Dale MayleaOctober 21, 2019October 21, 2019
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News in Brief The American Naturalist

Endangered plant stands on the shoulders of midgets

A plant’s survival in the location can depend on the microscopic life in the soil.

by Dale MayleaOctober 18, 2019October 17, 2019
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News in Brief Physiologia Plantarum

The parasitic plant Cuscuta sets up barriers to some minerals when infecting a host

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.

by Dale MayleaOctober 17, 2019October 16, 2019
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Featured New Phytologist News in Brief

How fire may burn forests into scrubland

Forests that have coped with fires in the past may struggle to regenerate as climate change increases aridity in the Mediterranean Basin.

by Dale MayleaOctober 16, 2019October 14, 2019
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News in Brief Oikos

Adaptability is not always positive for plants tackling climate change

Becoming an early flowering plant may be a problem if your pollinators are asleep and your herbivores are not.

by Dale MayleaOctober 15, 2019October 14, 2019
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Annals of Botany News in Brief

The best way to grow strong upright rose stems is to bend them over

Bending rose stems dramatically increases photosynthesis.

by Dale MayleaOctober 14, 2019October 14, 2019
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Hazelnuts
News in Brief

Reading the fingerprints on your nuts

Are you getting the hazelnuts you pay for? How do you know? A new technique offers an alternative to subjective tests like flavour.

by Dale MayleaNovember 30, 2018November 30, 2018
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Botany One is a blog run by the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity.

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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