Name: Baniwi (Banana Kiwi) plant Scientific name: N/A Known for: Fooling millions and millions of people Record broken: Going viral on the internet At AoBBlog, we like graphs and data. Therefore, I decided to approach...
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Anne Osterrieder
annbot
Plant Virus Ecology
In this short and highly accessible article, Marilyn Roossinck provides an excellent primer for the non-initiated.
AJ Cann
Breathe in, breathe out
A paper in AoB PLANTS describes new methods for real-time monitoring of trace gases such as ethylene, nitric oxide and ethanol which play an important role in many areas of biology.
Not so green as they’re cabbage looking
There have been some very interesting papers published recently on how plants withstand diseases. Plants seeingly lack the sophisticated immune system of mamals, so discoveries of how they use the genes they have is...
The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology
Gary has absolutely promised me this will be the last top 10 list. We’ll see 🙂 But here it is anyway, the results of Molecular Plant Pathology’s survey of fungal pathologists which asked them to nominate the...
Here we go again…
In January I wrote about Molecular Plant Pathology’s top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology. Everyone likes a good list, but I had no idea it would be so controversial. Well now they’re at it...
Bananas on the cover – a videoblog
We used a bunch of bananas, one of the species I work with, as the main background image on the cover of Annals of Botany two years ago. I am discussing the cover images in Annals of Botany in three video blogs...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
The mysteries of movement proteins
To establish a systemic infection, plant viruses invade neighboring cells via cell to cell movement trough plasmodesmata channels until they reach the vascular system. This cell to cell movement is an active process...
Reactions of Nicotiana species to inoculation with begomoviruses
The inability of begomoviruses to systemically infect several Nicotiana species is likely due to inhibition of virus movement rather than replication and provides a novel model to study virus-host interactions in...
Improving lives through research on banana biodiversity
Numerous communities in developing countries depend on bananas as a staple food and as a source of income. The vast majority of producers are smallholder farmers who grow most of the world production, estimated by the...
Guest Author
Viruses and promotion of plant genotypic diversity
Genotypic diversity is essential for maintenance of plant species. Van Mölken and Stuefer examine White clover mosaic virus and Trifolium repens and show that the effects of virus infection on plant performance can...
botanyone
Bananas, disease, diversity, research and The One Show
Our favourite fruit, the banana, is threatened by fungal, viral and bacterial diseases. This was discussed on the BBC TV programme ‘The One Show’ on 13 May, to include an interview with Pat Heslop-Harrison...
Thousands of trees felled in UK to stop Sudden Oak Death
Thousands of trees are being felled in Somerset to stop the spread of a killer disease. Sudden Oak Death attacks more than 100 varieties of plants and is spreading faster than predicted. The National Trust And The...
