Blog Action Day is an annual event that encourages bloggers to talk about a specific topic. This year the theme is Food and it seems like an excellent topic for botanical bloggers. The day is October 16, which gives...
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Alun Salt
Autumn Clean
I’ve been tidying up my online presence, RSS feeds and so on for the new academic year. I’ll be moving my life sciences posts to a professional account on Google Plus, In some ways this is the wrong way...
Social media: A guide for researchers
Social media: A free guide for researchers - download a copy and send it to a colleague.
AJ Cann
Berry Go Round 36 is live
Catch up on plant blogging from the last month at Seeds Aside, where the latest edition of Berry Go Round is up.
Phylogenetics of Ornithogaloideae
Phylogenetics of Ornithogaloideae The taxonomy of subfamily Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) has been a matter of controversy in recent decades, with several contradictory taxonomic treatments having been proposed...
botanyone
Oxidative stress responses in two lichen phycobionts
Oxidative stress responses in two lichen phycobionts The epiphytic lichen Ramalina farinacea contains two genetically distinct Trebouxia phycobionts. Del Hoyo et al. analyse the effects of oxidative stress on the...
Sunflower nitrogen-stress response and gene expression
Sunflower nitrogen-stress response and gene expression The hybrid sunflower Helianthus anomalus is endemic to desert sand dunes, which have lower nutrient availability than the habitats of its parental species...
Drowning in the data or the calm before the genome sequence storm? #PAG
My abiding memory of the Plant and Animal Genome (#PAG) conference this year will be not so much the talks, the many individual discussions I have had, nor the quantities of great food in southern California. It will be...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
What’s next for AoB Blog? 2011
New year greetings and a look forward to plans for the coming year.
Blogger goes bananas (in a good way)
I’m just writing a quick post here to point to another blog post at Vaviblog by Jeremy Cherfas on the recent paper Did backcrossing contribute to the origin of hybrid edible bananas?. Banana domestication...
Are there online communities?
There’s thoughtful post up at Civil War Memory by Kevin Levin, Can You Afford Not To Use Social Media? Some of his thoughts are similar to discussions we had about what would be possible with AoB Blog. Some less...
