Some Brazilian Cyperaceae are the fastest post-fire bloomers in the world!
Tag - Brazil
João C. F. Cardoso
Nectar Manipulates Bats into Perfect Pollinators
A Brazilian plant manipulates bats into more effective pollination by controlling nectar secretion patterns, which encourages them to visit a variety of flowers.
Fi Gennu
Orchid Mimics Aphids to Lure Pollinators in Intricate Trap Flower Scheme
What appears to be a place of safety becomes a maze, as an orchid manipulates its visitor.
How Do Seeds Save for a Rainy Day?
Timing is everything. For seeds it's a matter of life or death.
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra
Toxomerus basalis: The fly that uses a killer as a babysitter
Sundews are carnivorous plants that feed on small naive insects. So why does a fly deliberately lay its eggs on the plant?
Alun Salt
The colour of background vegetation reveals how bees see flowers
Studying how bees perceive flowers gives insight into how pollinators have influenced flower evolution.
Andrea Romero
Ant pollination in Brazilian savanna
Ant–plant associations are widely diverse and distributed throughout the world, leading to complex ecological networks. Regarding ant–plant mutualism, ant pollination is a very rare interaction and few studies have...
Alex Assiry
Dark soils are the shadow of hidden agriculture
Stains left in the soil from past farmers, and the plants they cultivated, are helping illuminate prehistoric inhabitants of the Amazon.
Genetic diversity and dispersal of manioc in Amazonia
The wide distribution of the most common chloroplast haplotype agrees with an early dispersal of manioc across Brazilian Amazonia.
botanyone
Expanding forests can be bad news for the environment
You might think that increasing forest cover is good news in Brazil, but that’s not always the case, according to a new study.
Dale Maylea
Gone but not forgotten…
Looking back to the annus horribilis that was 2016 we might reflect on the loss of so many icons of the world of music, e.g. David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Rick Parfitt, George Michael, and Terry Wogan (whose...
Nigel Chaffey
In an oft-overlooked part of Brazil, botanists have found something bizarre growing
In the Pantanal it's possible that botanists have found a plant that taking it's first steps - upwards.
Plant Science for the Future (AoB at IPMB Part Two)
The 11th Congress of International Plant Molecular Biology took place at Iguazú Falls, located at the Argentine-Brazilian border. Our guest blogger Michelle Cotta used the opportunity to talk to a few of the leading...
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Inspiring new discoveries of the nature of plant life at the molecular level (AoB at IPMB Part One)
The 11th Congress of International Plant Molecular Biology took place at Iguazú Falls, located at the Argentine-Brazilian border. This was an outstanding event, co-organized by the two Latin American countries, and held...
