Predicting future responses of trees to drought is notoriously difficult, requiring consideration of many factors, including temperature, soil type, and how trees regulate their water usage. Water regulation in trees...
January 17 marks twelfth night in the Julian Calendar. It also marks the traditional night of wassailing, a ritual to drive evil spirits from the orchard.
The non-specific phospholipases C (NPC) are recently discovered new subclass of plant phospholipases. Most of them have not yet been characterised thoroughly. Krčková et al. prepare and purify Arabidopsis thaliana NPC2...
It's easy to see how herbivory could lead to defences in plants, but what happens when the attackers start using those expensive defences for their own benefit?
One of our most popular posts is Roses are red – but they don’t need to be, if you know how to use food dyes and Fibonacci. In it, Anne Osterrieder explains how to make your own rainbow rose. Not everyone is convinced...
It’s Friday afternoon, so I’m relaxing with a video, in this case the latest from Brilliant Botany, a follow up to the earlier video, The Plants of Pokémon Go.
This week, the biggest flower on the planet, also known as the “Queen of all Parasitic Plants”, has come to Oxford - but not in the way you would might expect.
What does it mean to work towards Sustainable Development? Pat Heslop-Harrison, editor of Annals of Botany, has been discussing the issue in Brussels with European stakeholders.