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...
Category - Education
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Galleria Carnivora
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...
AJ Cann
ChloroFilms – plant videos on YouTube
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...
Inspiring the Next Generation of Plant Science Researchers
A single well-designed and timely intervention can influence future student behavior and offers a framework of potential use.
annbot
The future of plant science
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...
Botany: A Blooming History
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...
Social media: A guide for researchers
Social media: A free guide for researchers - download a copy and send it to a colleague.
What’s next for AoB Blog? 2011
New year greetings and a look forward to plans for the coming year.
Testing Times for Plant Family Recognition
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.
Bad Times Just Around The Corner
… 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...
Catch ’em while they’re young(ish)
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...
