Advances in computational models may allow us to quickly predict responses of important food crops to environmental stresses in the field, and to identify the genetic basis of these.
Category - Plants & People
Liam Elliott
Creating the conservationists of the future in times of rapidly shifting baselines
Planting urban trees could also plant a seed of conservation in children.
Chloe Trotter
in silico Plants Maximizes the Visibility of Your Paper
Having your paper accepted is not the end of the production process.
Rachel Shekar
Fruits of all colours: how green-stripe tomatoes get their distinctive colour pattern
How fruits or flowers produce particular colouration or colour patterning is a question that often has complex answers. It may also seem to be a relatively trivial question. Don’t be fooled though – Barbara...
Ex Situ Collections Not Reaching Genetic Diversity Goals
More efficient sampling could capture greater diversity without overwhelming space constraints.
Erin Zimmerman
Now is the time start a nature diary
You can help nature by making a little time for yourself.
Alun Salt
Sketch by Goethe may be first depiction of intraspecific trait variation
Though the phenomenon was known in Goethe’s time, research didn’t start in earnest for another century.
Larch, still Number 1!*
If a tree falls in a forest, can it still insulate people from sound pollution?
Nigel Chaffey
Scientific study shows you can garden your way to health
The act of gardening is one of the key correlates with wellbeing, a survey finds.
in silico Plants now listed on Directory of Open Access Journals
Listing in Directory of Open Access Journals verifies isP’s high level of openness and adherence to best practice and also increases your article’s discoverability. in silico Plants is proud to announce that it is now...
Plants to dye for…
Image: The Funeral of Raymond Diocrès / Wikipedia We are told that the future’s bright, the future’s orange. If true, that’s rather monochrome, and drab, and sad. So, what better time to celebrate a more colourful – and...
The scented story of rice
A guest post by Debarati Chakraborty The power of aroma compounds to offer physical, mental and spiritual delight is one of the oldest enchanting tales. Aroma stimulates the limbic system, one of the primitive parts of...
Debarati Chakraborty
Aluminium-silicon interactions in higher plants: a brief personal history
How aluminium, silicon and two researchers are connected.
Martin Hodson
Every little helps…
Each year International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March. This year’s theme is “collective individualism – how our individual actions, conversations, behaviours and mind-sets can have an impact on our larger...
Anne Osterrieder
