Mr Cuttings hears of a new journal launched this summer, and is appropriately excited.
Tag - American Journal of Botany
Nigel Chaffey
Thirsty? Then suck on a stone!
Whilst it is claimed that only the taxman can get blood out of a stone, it seems that some plants can abstract water from stone-like minerals. Arguably, ahead of light, water is the most important abiotic factor that...
Feel the force!
Plants are remarkably sensitive to their environment, responding by appropriate growth and development to a wide range of environmental stimuli. In the case of gravity, the appropriate response is for stems to grow...
You can’t be best at everything…
There is a widespread belief that everything in/of/from/about America is bigger, better, faster, etc, than anything from elsewhere in the world. That is probably the best example of spin over substance ever foisted on...
Temperature: getting it right
Have we been measuring temperature incorrectly all along?
Junior science: that shrinking feeling…
We often bemoan the fact that we know neither whither nor whence will come the next generation of plant scientists (e.g. Sinéad Drea). Well, here’s an inspiring tale from the USA that might just give part of the answer...
Straightening out the Palmaceae
As one of the most obvious indications of growth, you might have thought that there was little new to discover about increase in length of plant stems. Wrong! Studying growth in Iriartea deltoidea (Arecaceae), Heidi...
Proof of phytological principle
Sadly, we don’t have time machines that would permit us to go back and see ancient evolution in action. So we have to make do with such devices and stratagems as inference, surmise, speculation, good honest-to-goodness...
