Looking for a nice unresolved botanical mystery ?
A manuscript from Renaissance Italy (?) has baffled researchers for over a century.
Category: Plants & People
Your lawn can identify the traces of vehicle pollution
Mobile and plant-based measurements of fossil fuel CO2 can help quantify decarbonization progress in cities
A quick Mastodon migration guide for Twitter botanists
People are looking to leave Twitter, but where can they go to?
ASPB unveils another new teaching tool
Now you can learn about a century of research into flowering time.
An emerging field in Plant Science: Plant Synthetic Biology takes the stage in Barcelona
Michela Osnato talks to Dr. Jae-Seong Yang and Dr. Ivan Reyna-Llorens about their recent Plant Synthetic Biology conference in Barcelona.
Now embedding social media on the new design
We’ll be aiming to expand the range of what we can share.
Archaeologists race against the climate to preserve aboriginal art
Trees that have stood for thousands of years may soon collapse due to climate change. If they do, they’ll take irreplaceable aboriginal art with them.
Plant Remains in Coffin Pillows Betray Burial Beliefs
A top-quality pillow is essential for a good night’s sleep, but what pillow do you need for the longest sleep? A study of pillows in Polish graves shows that Catholics and Protestants had different ideas.
Meet our new Science Editors : Michela and Guillaume
Welcome to two editors who will expand Botany One’s horizons.
Winter is coming, and that’s bad news for food security
Two recent papers take different approaches to the potentially disastrous consequences of loading the stratosphere with ash but combined, they act as a warning for the fragility of food security.
Ecologists discover a place for the dead in graveyards
It was thought that people preferred graveyards to be tidy. A new survey finds that visitors can accept the presence of some decaying matter – opening more possibilities for biodiversity.
Dutch Scientists Learn How to Get Better Botanical Data from the Public
Instead of complaining about the limits of volunteer work, some Dutch botanists have found how to improve their understanding of data from citizen scientists.
Are Botanists Threatened with Extinction?
Scientists argue that we won’t be able to protect the natural world, if we’re not training the next generation of botanists with the necessary skills, writes Sebastian Stroud.
The AoBP Awards for Emerging Voices in Botany
Providing early career researchers with a new platform to have their voices heard and to quash the inequity in academic publishing.