Jonathan Mitchley on a symposium coming to Reading University in November to help fight plant blindness.
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BLINKing stomata: an optogenetic approach to improve plant growth and water use
Photosynthesis needs water. Guest blogger Maria Papanatsiou has a new way of increasing water efficiency in plants, enabling them to do more with less.
Celebrating 1, 10 and 100
Treasurer Roderick Hunt celebrates a few milestones for the Annals of Botany Company.
New CO2 microsensor reveals old secrets of plants
We have constructed a new CO2 microsensor with a tip diameter as small as the thinnest of human hairs. This new microsensor can be positioned in plant tissues in controlled laboratory experiments as well as in the...
Synthetic auxin resistance in wild radish is still an enigma
Guest author Danica Goggin finds wild radish is a problem weed in many agricultural regions. It is also very good at concealing its herbicide resistance strategies from inquisitive researchers. But with the introduction...
Orchid seeks the most passionate pollinators
It's not enough to mimic a female - you have to do it well.
The rewards of chasing nectar
We know that flowers entice pollinators with nectar, but how much and what causes a flower to produce as much or as little nectar as it does. In this guest post, Amy Parachnowitsch, Jessamyn Manson and Nina Sletvold...
Plant-animal interactions deal with wildfires in unexpected ways
A guest post by Yedra García, María Clara Castellanos and Juli G. Pausas Wildfires might seem like dramatic events, even in ecosystems where they are fully natural. Yet plants and animals have evolved all sorts of...
Elevated carbon dioxide: Getting to the root of the problem
How will plants respond to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere? Botanists at BIFoR, the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research have gone underground to find some of the answers.
Germination in the Cerrado is unique
How rapidly does a seed need to germinate to survive? In Brazil's Cerrado, it's not just about speed, but starting at the right time.
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle : un des plus grands herbiers du monde à Paris
C’est au 17ème siècle que fut créé le Jardin des Plantes de Paris, dans un but premier de conservation de plantes médicinales, à une époque où médecine et botanique étaient alors indissociables. Cette vocation à...
The National Museum of Natural History in Paris: one of the largest herbaria in the world
Karine Alix introduces a blog post by her students about a visit to the herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History of the Jardin des plantes in Paris The Jardin des Plantes in Paris was created in the 17th...
How hard is it to use plant computational models? Ask our students!
How scary are plant models? Students at Université catholique de Louvain have been finding out.
Est-il difficile d’utiliser des modèles informatiques de plantes? Demandez à nos étudiants!
Note to newsletter visitors. Due to a bug in the system you’ve come here instead of to the Spanish homepage. This link should work. Un post invité par Xavier DRAYE, Guillaume LOBET, Brieuc RYELANDT, Antoine...
