Taming fruit: How orchards have transformed the land, offered sanctuary, and inspired creativity, by Bernd Brunner, 2021. Greystone Books Ltd. One might tame lions, or dogs, or other animals, but, does one really tame...
Tag - apple
Nigel Chaffey
The extraordinary story of an ‘ordinary’ fruit…
The Extraordinary Story of the Apple by Barrie E. Juniper and David J. Mabberley 2019. Kew Publishing. Having recently read Robert Spengler’s Fruits from the sands (and Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire several years...
Introducing MuSCA, the multi-scale carbon allocation model
MuSCA reveals that the topological scale has a major influence on the simulation of carbon allocation.
Alun Salt
Glycoprotein secretions and pollen tube kinetics in apple
The obturator bridges the downward transit of the pollen tube through style to ovary in many angiosperms. Examining pollen tube growth kinetics in the pistil in Malus × domestica and relating these to changes occurring...
botanyone
Newton thwarted by the ascent of sap
Is botany nothing more than a matter of physics?
The apple wasn’t trying to co-operate with Isaac Newton
Sclereids contribute to peduncle strength in apples, but are the most effective tissue in stiffening peduncles against bending.
AJ Cann
Has spring sprung yet?
It's not just humans waiting for Spring - recent research reveals that microbes are also looking forward to the new growth of plants.
Choosing the correct candidate gene (two Viewpoint papers)
This is an exciting time to study how different non-model species use common developmental genes to create such diversity in the plant world. In many cases researchers tend to identify, within newly available sequences...
August Image: Apple Stigma
This month the inset cover image shows a detail of the stigma of a flower of apple, Malus × domestica. The acquisition of stigmatic receptivity is concomitant with secretion of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs, strained...
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