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Tag - Africa
Dale Maylea
Last stand of the Saharan Cypress?
A new article in Planta attempts to help preserve a tree that has survived in the Sahara for thousands of years.
Origins of domesticated pearl millet identified in the western Sahara
A long disagreement over the origins of millet farming in Africa may have been solved by combining genetics with archaeological evidence.
Epizoochory and diversification of the Achyranthoids (Amaranthaceae)
Many African genera of the Amaranthaceae exhibit unique inflorescences that include sterile flowers modified to hooks or spines. Considering that the abundance of large terrestrial herbivores increased on the African...
botanyone
Science, technology and innovation for Africa with the EU-Africa High Level Policy Dialogue stakeholder panel
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.
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Understanding Cassava to Feed Africa
Cassava is often seen as a poor cousin in the world's staple crops but is vitally important in sub-Saharan Africa.
AJ Cann
Genetic structure and diversity of Coffea
In addition to the two species cultivated for coffee, Coffea arabica and C. canephora, the genus has a further 123 wild species, of which 112 are native to Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. Razafinarivo et al. assess...
Proteaceae, Banksia, Macadamia nuts and the Annals of Botany Cover
Our videoblog discusses plants in the family Proteaceae, a well-known Southern hemisphere family with many beautiful and well-known representatives in Africa and Australia. The striking red flowers of the genus...
The real butterfly effect
In Chaos Theory, the butterfly effect refers to the notion that a small change at one place can result in much larger differences to a later state. The example used to illustrate this – and which gives the phenomenon...
Nigel Chaffey
Disproving a C4 reversion in Eragrostis
Disproving a C4 reversion in Eragrostis Eragrostis walteri (Poaceae), a grass with C3 foliar anatomy in an otherwise C4 genus and subfamily, has long been thought to be an exceptional example of the rare evolutionary...
