Impact factors for AoB journals are up.
Tag - Annals of Botany
AJ Cann
Nature Plants: an appreciation [or, Now we are Three…*]
A review of 'Nature Plants', the latest offering from the Nature Publishing Group.
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...
One hundred and twenty-five years of the Annals of Botany
By August 2012, the Annals of Botany had been published without a break for 125 years.
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For they are jolly good fellows
We’d like to congratulation two recently appointed plant-biological Fellows of the Royal Society: Professor Liam Dolan FRS and Professor David Beerling FRS.
New plant journal
It just had to happen, but we didn’t know it would take nearly 150 years to come to fruition. And fruition is an apt word because the creation of a new botanical journal has recently been announced by the publishers...
An explosive mix: C4, C3, C2 and CCM
How many more variants exist amongst the 325,000 species of flowering plants (let alone all the algae and other members of the plant kingdom)?
One of a kind…
Rare and monotypic Amborella is probably the living – extant – flowering plant closest evolutionarily to the first true member of the angiosperm group.
The May 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now free access
The May 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now free access. The cover image for this month is a flower that looks quite different, depending on where in the tropics you look at it. Why isn’t there a smooth...
Alun Salt![Image: Hu et al., 2014. Annals of Botany 113: 181–189. [http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/113/1.cover-expansion]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/05-Feb-SIZED-align-left.jpg?resize=585%2C300&ssl=1)
Your botanical ‘one-stop shop’
There are plant biology journals that seem to concentrate on a single taxon (you know the ones I mean!) – e.g. The Plant Journal and The Plant Cell. There are others devoted to the molecular biology of plants, such as...
Non-leaf photosynthesis
Photosynthetic activity of green nectaries can explain a significant part, if not all, of the sugar secreted in nectar.
The Annals measures up…
Annals of Botany is amongst the ten ‘Top publications’ in botany/plant science!
![Image: Brillouet et al., 2013. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mct168]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/01-Oct-SIZED-align-left.jpg?resize=585%2C300&ssl=1)
Tann-fastic, a new plant organelle(!!)
Jean-Marc Brillouet et al. have identified a new organelle in plant cells: the 'tannosome' is involved in the formation of condensed tannins.
Annals of Botany, now with all images FREE!
Looking for an image? A recent upgrade to Annals of Botany means that you can now access images from published papers without charge.
