One way to preserve plants suffering from rising temperatures is to relocate them in new areas that have become suitable for them. But when a plant grows in the sands of a harsh desert, you don't want that habitat to...
Tag - China
Fi Gennu
Thinning Chinese Pine Plantations Could Be a Solution for Improved Plant Diversity and Forest Regeneration
The best way to rejuvenate forests is to let in a little light - but not too much.
Dale Maylea
Fungi prepare the soil for plant invasions
Chinese researchers find that similar plants can gain a big competitive advantage by partnering with the right fungi.
Alun Salt
Lessons from magnolias about past climatic events and plant evolution
Chinese scientists used data from Magnolia plastid genomes to peer back millions of years to understand Cenozoic climatic changes.
Juniper Kiss
Grass finds more than one way to survive in saline soil
A study of two species of grass in China finds that they have developed different methods to cope with the stress of saline-alkali soils.
Tales of tea, still stirring emotions in 2020
Tea leaves might not predict the future, but they have a powerful connection to our past.
Nigel Chaffey
Uncovering underground Botany
Hidden in the shadows, plants have survived catastrophic deforestation by taking refuge in caves.
Abelia hybridization and introgression
Landrein et al. explore the genetic and morphological consequences of natural selection and selective breeding in the genus Abelia (Caprifoliaceae). The genus comprises ornamental shrubs, endemic to China, that have...
botanyone
Why is population information crucial for taxonomy?
Despite acceptance in the scientific community that population information and suites of characters are crucial for circumscription of taxonomic groups, new taxa continue to be published on the basis of few herbarium...
AoBPLANTS
The interconnectedness of plant studies
Have you ever wondered how the monthly Plant Cuttings’ collection comes to be? Do you think Mr P Cuttings knows in advance what he’s going to write about each month? He has a notional idea of the items he wants to...
Phylogeography and genetic structure of a Tertiary relict tree
The phylogeography, the study of the spatial and temporal history of a species, remains largely unclear for plant species in sub-tropical China. Zhang et al. use Tapiscia sinensis, an endemic tree species, as a model to...
AJ Cann
Raindrops keep falling on my flowerhead
Imagine you’re a young and eager pollen. You’re eager for a hot date with an ovule, but first you have to get to her doorstep. How do you travel? The popular way is to fly and many pollen grains are light...
Tylosis formation in a fossil conifer
Knowledge of tylose formation is mainly based on observations of extant species, and their developmental and functional significance are less well understood in fossil plants. Feng et al. study a permineralized stem of...
