A survey invites the public to suggest plants and animals for illustrating Ireland's passports, showing one way to raise appreciation for nature's diversity.
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Nigel Chaffey
Some seeds do better when they get eaten twice
A Hungarian study finds that plant seeds can benefit when their original carrier gets eaten by an owl.
Alun Salt
The Queer Side Of Botany
To celebrate the pride month, Botany One had a conversation with Sixto-Juan Zavala, founder of Queer Botany - an initiative aimed at connecting young members of the LGBTQ+ community with the plant world through...
Michela Osnato
Traitor: Unleashing the Power of Automation for Studying Seed Traits
Are you using callipers and microscopes to measure seeds? Well, not anymore! Traitor comes to the rescue of seed scientists and technicians.
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra
New Biosensor Reveals How Plants Respond to Drought Conditions
Innovative biosensor technology has shed light on how plants react to low humidity, revealing that the leaves signal the roots to grow and find water.
Growing biofuels in marginal land
A problem with growing biofuels is that they can take land needed for food. What happens when you start growing biofuels on marginal land where food crops are not possible?
Fi Gennu
Introducing MuSCA, the multi-scale carbon allocation model
MuSCA reveals that the topological scale has a major influence on the simulation of carbon allocation.
A fern thought to grow on trees still keeps a root on the ground
The Aspleniaceae is a family of ferns, some of which are terrestrial and some of which are epiphytes. A new study has found a rarity, a hemiepiphyte.
Belowground biomass reduces erosion rates in sand dunes
New research shows that it's the parts of the plants you don't see that help preserve dunes from erosion.
How do mangrove forests recover from cyclones?
What happens when cyclones hit mangroves? What happens when there are repeated impacts? Ken Krauss and Michael Osland have been looking at the scientific research to find out.
PtHMGR overexpression enhances tolerance of salt and drought
Overexpression of PtHMGR enhanced the stress resistance of poplar.
Where did the first flowers grow?
Botanists have tried to understand the conditions that led to the evolution of the first flowers by reconstructing the niches from which the earliest flowering plants diverged.
What factors make a deadly carrot so dangerous?
The deadly carrot might sound as likely as the killer tomato, but decoding the defences of Thapsia garganica might have a big pay-off in the future.
A new study reveals how the cuticle protects maize leaves
The cuticle is a waxy covering of a leaf that helps prevent water-loss. A new study of adult maize leaves shows it's not a simple structure.
