Plants at the edge of populations have to share genes with more distant neighbours to produce offspring, and that can have benefits.
Tag - genetics
Alun Salt
A.I. Assistant
Syrian seed rescue a triumph of international cooperation
More than 80% of the Syrian seed collection was preserved at Svalbard before the facility was lost.
Erin Zimmerman
Orchid conservation must be guided by an understanding of their ecology
What makes orchids unique can also make saving them a challenge.
Photosynthesis: a fast-changing process in an even faster world
Photosynthesis is the process that fuels a plant. It sets the energy budget for the organism. It’s no surprise it’s a well-studied process, tet the most commonly measured photosynthesis parameters are made...
botanyone
Genetic and genomic approaches to biomass crop improvement at Bioenergy Genomics 2017
On Tuesday morning at the Bioenergy Genomics 2017 we will be looking at biofuel genomics. But what does that mean?
Jack Bailey-Bale
Plant Records: An ever increasing pot of gold
Name: Maize or Corn Scientific name: Zea mays Known for: Food of the Gods (or Blasphemy against them when in Corn Dogs) Record broken: Yields I expect most of you have limited direct experience with many of our other...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
From genes to networks: genetic control of root growth (Invited Review)
This review first describes the root system and then presents fundamental work that has shed light on the basic regulatory principles of root growth and development.
Farming in the DNA
Archaeology shows that farming spread across Europe from the Middle East. For Europeans, farming started in the Fertile Crescent in the Levant, Turkey and Iraq around 8-9,000 BC. It spread into SE Europe around 6,500 BC...
Question: when is a seed not a seed?
This article explores the future potential for DOI numbers to be used in identifying plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
Nigel Chaffey
Crocus, saffron-omics and the highest value crop
Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop with sustainability, cultural and social values, and high labour...
A new day dawning: Hemerocallis as a model organism
Genetic model organisms have revolutionized science, and with rapid advances in technology there is significant potential to launch more plant species towards model status. However, these new model organisms have to be...
annbot
Proteaceae, Banksia, Macadamia nuts and the Annals of Botany Cover
Our videoblog discusses plants in the family Proteaceae, a well-known Southern hemisphere family with many beautiful and well-known representatives in Africa and Australia. The striking red flowers of the genus...
Feeling sleepy
Like most animals, plants also sleep at night. At least, many do, but not, unfortunately, Arabidopsis, and our scientific over-reliance on this one species has hampered understanding of nyctinasty, sleeping movements of...
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...
