It’s now nearly mid-way between Plant and Animal Genome Conferences held each January in San Diego. This is an annual conference where you can pick up on trends in genomic research with an emphasis on crops and to a...
Category - Conferences
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Crocus, saffron-omics and the highest value crop
Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop with sustainability, cultural and social values, and high labour...
Plant molecular cytogenetics in the genomic and postgenomic era
The way that we can address questions in genome evolution and expression has changed enormously in the last five years. We can get huge amounts of DNA sequence for any species for a budget within that of most labs. As...
Plants and Climate Change: Complexities and Surprises
Four decades of intensive research into anthropogenically induced shifts in CO2, precipitation, and temperature evidence important biological impacts on many plant species. As ecologists develop more sophisticated...
annbot
Making waves at the Plant Calcium Signalling Meeting
Calcium ions (Ca2+) are important signal molecules to relay information around, and between cells. In plants, calcium signals are involved in many processes including cell growth, environmental stress (e.g. high salt in...
Sarah Shailes
What inspired you to do plant science? #epso2014
This week guest author Charlie Haynes is AoB Blog’s roving reporter at the EPSO/FESPB plant biology Europe conference. At the FESPB/EPSO plant biology conference in Dublin I asked some of the delegates what inspired...
Why Botany is Important #epso2014
This week guest author Charlie Haynes is AoB Blog’s roving reporter at the EPSO/FESPB plant biology Europe conference. This post is his pre-conference manifesto. On the first day of the EPSO/FESPB plant...
Behind the scenes of a hundred journals
Last weekend the European Association of Science Editors had their conference in Split, Croatia. For me it was an opportunity to look behind the scenes of many journals at once to see what was coming up in other areas...
Alun Salt
Reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide: A Special Issue of Annals of Botany
The actions of humans have exacerbated the threats posed by climate change. Adverse environmental conditions such as drought and pathogen attack limit vigour and crop yield. Environmental biotic and abiotic stresses...
Catching up with Botany 2013
I’ve been catching up with blog posts from Botany 2013. The Phytophactor has several posts on the subject, starting with Botanical Meetings – New Orleans. There’s a summary at No seeds, no fruits, no...
Flowering around the Med
The latest in a series of two-yearly workshops on Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Flower Development was held this June on the Giens Peninsula of the French Cote d’Azur. This workshop, which was generously supported by...
Charlie Scutt
Social media tips and tools for scientists
Should scientists use social media for work purposes? What types of content can researchers put online and how can they make it reach even further? How to engage students via Twitter? How do you manage information...
Anne Osterrieder
Thinking outside the plant: Plant science with impact
‘What is a plant?’ I imagine that none of the four speakers at the Society for Experimental Biology’s (SEB) ‘Science with Impact’ session had expected that question. Steven Cooke (Conservation Physiology), Christine...
How learned societies can boost your scientific career
Anne Osterrieder is a Research and Science Communication Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Over the next few days I’ll be blogging from the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology. This year it takes...
