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Laura Skates

Laura Skates is a botanist and science communicator from Western Australia. Her research focuses on the unusual nutritional ecology of carnivorous plants in their natural habitats, and her passions include conservation, botanical art, floral fashion, and literally anything else plant-related. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @floraskates
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Ecosystems

Nature in the city: how to protect Perth’s Banksia woodlands?

Concerned scientists have come together to identify key threats and research priorities for a Threatened Ecological Community in Western Australia.

by Laura SkatesMarch 19, 2021March 19, 2021
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Close Encounters

A carnivorous plant that feeds its pollinators

Edible floral trichomes discovered in bee-pollinated Pinguicula species show carnivorous plants can feed insects as well as feed on insects.

by Laura SkatesFebruary 23, 2021February 23, 2021
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Close Encounters

Hungry for fungi: green mycoheterotrophic plants are far more common than previously thought

A surprising number of plants snack on fungi as well as sunshine.

by Laura SkatesFebruary 12, 2021February 12, 2021
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Ecosystems

Urban environments and climate change: how do we choose resilient urban trees for the future?

by Laura SkatesJanuary 16, 2021January 19, 2021
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Plants & People

State of the World’s Plants and Fungi: Does conservation policy help or hinder scientific research?

Policies brought into protect plants could also cause harm by restricting research into habitats.

by Laura SkatesOctober 16, 2020October 16, 2020
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Ecosystems Growth & Development

Where do halophytes grow? Influence of elevation, flooding, and salinity in a non-tidal saltmarsh

Unpredictability means that the traits needed to survive in seasonally flooded marshes are different to tidally flooded marshes.

by Laura SkatesJune 22, 2020June 22, 2020
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Close Encounters Taxonomy & Evolution

Tricky flowers: how floral variation in a food-deceptive orchid is maintained over generations

Sometimes it’s a good idea not to send a consistent message to your pollinators.

by Laura SkatesMay 29, 2020May 28, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Taxonomy & Evolution

How a conifer spread between isolated mountain-tops: the demographic history of Podocarpus latifolius/milanjianus

Were there land-bridges in the past that enabled trees to travel from mountaintop to mountaintop?

by Laura SkatesMay 28, 2020May 27, 2020
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Growth & Development

Dying to grow: Programmed Cell Death key to an epiphytic orchid’s root development

Li and colleagues combined the use of transmission electron microscopy, x-ray microtomography, and transcriptome methods to characterize the major anatomical and molecular changes that occur during the development and death of velamen radicum cells of Cymbidium tracyanum, a typical epiphytic orchid.

by Laura SkatesMay 2, 2020May 15, 2020
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Growth & Development

Staminodes of Aquilegia: how an unusual floral organ develops

Why would a flower want sterile stamens. An investigation into their development yields some clues.

by Laura SkatesApril 24, 2020April 24, 2020
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  2. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

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    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

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    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

  5. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

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