I'm writing an AoBBlog post (or maybe posts) on ten plants that all botanists should know quite a lot about. Criteria for inclusion include importance in the environment, importance to people as food or culturally...
Jeff Karron (AoB’s “pollen Editor”) recently tipped me off about Galleria Carnivora, a museum of colour photographs of carnivorous plants. There are lots of images online, but Galleria Carnivora is...
Jeff Karron (AoB’s “pollen Editor”) recently tipped me off about ChloroFilms, a competition for new videos illustrating remarkable aspects of plant life. Entrants create a relevant video, post it on...
Plant science is key to addressing the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century. In an article published in The Plant Cell, the two researchers argue that the development of new technology is key to...
Last night at 9pm hell froze over – the BBC broadcast a programme about plant taxonomy on a mainstream TV network. Did you see it? I thought not, it was tucked away on BBC4. It was excellent and well worth...
This paper features an illustrated tutorial for 11 of the largest plant families in Australia (over 50% of Australia’s plant species), augmented with a series of interactive tests.
… for Plant Sciences at Imperial College London, according to a post on the Imperial College Union website: Out of the two affected sections (Plant & Microbial Sciences and Cell Biology & Functional...
If you feel it is important to stress the significance of modern plant science, or the fascination of botany, on young minds, we would appreciate it if you would leave your suggestions for suitably engaging books in our...