Guided tour of plant anatomies
If you are looking for a guided tour in the world of plant anatomies, search no more and check out the Twitter threads from Adrien Luyckx, from UCLouvain.
Category: In Brief
Attracting bees is not always a smooth process for plants
Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees.
The future of sweet corn turns sour
Heat during flowering damages the kernels before they develop.
Learn how to look at Lichen
April Windle presents The Wonderful World of Lichens: Introduction to Saving Devon’s Treescapes
Plants remember how much warmer than usual it was last year
Stress memories using epigenetics are helping plants adapt to climate change.
When you don’t kill weeds you teach them how to survive
It’s not your imagination, some plants are prepared for your hoe when you try to eradicate them from your garden.
How does it feel?
Plants might not feel pain as such, but they need a way to get damage signals around their body. A new study uncovers some of the process.
Bloom in the desert
The best botanist on YouTube gives a guided tour of the Chihuahua Desert.
Now embedding social media on the new design
We’ll be aiming to expand the range of what we can share.