Plants that can reproduce by cloning themselves can share resources and signals to resist herbivores. Clones can change the structure of their leaves according to herbivore stress through the connections between them.
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Fi Gennu
From flowering-related genes to your plate: the science behind optimizing radish yield
Scientists have discovered that the reason why some radish plants take longer to flower than others is that different copies of certain genes that control flowering time, can interact in complicated ways with each...
Renata Cantoro
The plant that has a nectar menu to prevent unwanted visitors from interfering with pollination
A South American liana creates two different nectars for visitors. A new study finds out why.
Botanists find out why Yellow Rattle is so good at robbing so many different plants of their nutrients
Herbivores often specialise in the plants they persecute, but European Yellow Rattle can tackle many different species and steal their goodies.
Purple Moor Grass prevents Oaks from getting help finding nutrients
Molinia caerulea out-wrestles Quercus petraea in the battle for better ectomycorrhizal colonization.
The travel of Costa Rican palms revealed by their genetic footprints
Genetic analysis of a popular Costa Rican palm suggests that its genetic diversity could suffer from human action.
The AoBP Awards for Emerging Voices in Botany
Providing early career researchers with a new platform to have their voices heard and to quash the inequity in academic publishing.
William Salter
Phylogeography of the invasive Brazilian peppertree in South Africa
Can a better understanding of the origins of the invasive tree species Schinus terebinthifolia in South Africa help to inform its management?
Poor acclimation to drought in subalpine forest tree seedlings
How do subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce seedlings respond to experimental drought when grown under field conditions?
Can field botany be effectively taught as a distance course?
COVID-19 forced many academics to teach remotely; for field botany this required a complete rethink of how such a course could be taught.
Photochemical performance of bunchgrass reproductive structures
How does drought influence the photochemical performance of reproductive structures of native and exotic bunchgrasses of the Great Basin?
Interactive effects of drought and pollen intensity on seed production
Seed production of flowering plants is influenced by water availability and pollen deposition, but is there an interaction between these factors?
Transgenerational effects of heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana
Heat stress can have transgenerational effects on a plant's offspring but how important are the timing and frequency of these events?
Morphological characterisation of trichomes
Can we use electron microscopy and statistical analyses to better classify the trichomes of the large plant genus Solanum?
