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Alun Salt
A small dose of plant science and Focus with Forest.app
Plants on Earth being productive at some point in their life cycles is critical for their – and our lives. Productivity is also a common new year’s resolution for humans. Productivity in plants means photosynthesis...
Ian Street
Go Fungal!
It's a belated present, the PDF of the handout we've been using on stands for Botany One.
What is Open Access and why does it matter?
This week we’re posting about papers from AoB PLANTS, an open access journal for plant science, and launching in silico Plants, another open access journal for research between mathematics, computer science and...
Headliner Video, a podcast tool that could help botanists produce video
One of the problems botanists have creating social video is a lot of the time the subject is static. Headliner Video is a tool that helps with that problem.
Contemporary Citation Classics – Subjects and Predictions
Philip White takes a peek into the future. What papers are likely to become 'citation classics'?
Philip White
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.
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Citation Classics in Plant Sciences since 1992
Philip White asks what are the classic papers in plant sciences, and highlights a method that allows you to produce your own lists for your field or sub-field.
ePlant: A Comprehensive Data Visualization Tool for Plant Biologists
The advent and breadth of bioinformatics resources have made scientist’s jobs easier. Before jumping into wet lab work, they are able to parse gene targets and construct better hypotheses. Several groups and research...
Arif Ashraf
iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
Plant Resources III: All the world’s trees in one place
If the POWO is not enough plant database for you [see my previous post], there is also a new database specifically for the world’s trees*. Called GlobalTreeSearch, it is hosted by Botanic Gardens Conservation...
Nigel Chaffey
Plant Resources II: All the world’s plants (at Kew!)
Well, not quite all. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is home to many living specimens of the world’s flora, and its collections of ‘dead stuff’ – principally from the Plant and Fungus Kingdoms – represent 95% of known...
Plant Resources I: Plant Image Bank
The power of images to convey information – especially in science communication which can often-times be quite complicated – is surely not in doubt. And that is why many of us have spent time wrestling with graphics...
Should You Tweet Posters from a Conference?
Pat raised an interesting point while he was at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. Should you tweet whole posters from a conference? I think I also saw a passive-aggressive complaint about people...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison