Backward-looking retrospectives [is there any other kind? – Ed.] are great. And that from the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University is one of the best. Annually, it publishes its...
Tag - Annals of Botany
Nigel Chaffey
Roles for calcium: numero uno
One important function of calcium is the part it plays in the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.
A bit of warmth and we all go bananas!?
In a warming world, could bananas really replace potatoes?
Annals of Botany – Biggest Year Ever
Annals of Botany has received more papers this year than ever before – we have just started processing the 1000th submitted manuscript. For comparison, 10 years ago in 2002 we received just 469 submissions, and...
annbot
Waste not, want not…
A little while ago we looked at auxotrophic algae getting a helping hand from bacteria; now we’ll take a look at ‘proper plants’ that get a little help from animals (in a sort of mixotrophy). But it’s not exactly...
Bigging-up the AoB Blog [or, Cann can – and does!]
The communication of science (and particularly discussion thereof and thereon, which often takes the form of post-publication review) has many opportunities in this electronic age. One such outlet is the plethora of...
Don’t underestimate the druse
Although known from plants for a long time, the function of mineral inclusions – included amongst the so-called ergastic substances of old – remains speculative. Frequently composed of calcium oxalate and rather toxic...
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...
Small scale milling of wheat flour in a roadside shop
This is a video of a flour mill with two stones in a small shop outside the gates of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. The film shows the grain being poured into the hoppers above the stones, and then...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Embrace Wikipedia!(?)
Now that’s probably something you thought you would never hear an academic say. Well, let’s qualify that outrageous statement. Acknowledging that entries on Wikipedia () can be amended by anybody who has access to the...
Using a Virtual Studio and making videoblogs on YouTube
Virtual studios and video blogs: I’ve produced and edited my first videoblogs, and here I’m going to give some indications of how they were made. The videoblogs mean I can tell you about interesting things...
Cerrado ecosystems and the Meskal Daisy on the cover
The third in a series of videoblogs from AoBBlog.com about the background pictures used on Annals of Botany covers. The Youtube link is here, and it is best watched in HD/1080p resolution. An outline of the text is...
Plants: where to draw the line? (or, ICBN rules, OK!?)
For years we can be happy using a word and thinking we know what it means, and presuming that everybody else also understands it in the same way. Well, what about the word ‘plants’? I realise I’m probably addressing...
