Annals of Botany is amongst the ten ‘Top publications’ in botany/plant science!
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Nigel Chaffey
Annals of Botany is a top 10 plant science journal
Having just released the 2013 Google Scholar metrics, it's good to see that Annals of Botany makes it into the top 10.
AJ Cann
The Earth is growing old too!
The LANDSAT programm was created by the NASA in the middle of the 60s in the main purpose of getting a dynamic view of Earth by satellite imagery (in the public domain). Seven satellites were launched between 1972 and...
Antoine Le Gal
The sociable botanist
An advert seen in my local virtual newspaper, Green Times Perennial, ‘Botanist, GSOH, out-going personality, WLTM other like-minded individuals for walks and talks on plant-related matters, maybe more…’, intrigued me:...
A Slice of the Wheat Genome
Considered by some to be the Mount Everest of crop genomes, the challenging wheat genome is close to being scaled. An international team has produced a draft of wheat's DNA sequence, one that identifies many of its...
annbot
How do cacti have sex?
You might think the answer is "very carefully", but in the case of Opuntia fragilis, it turns out to be "not at all". Considering its aversion to reproduction, one wonders how the brittle prickly...
Gatsby Plant Science – Undergraduate Studentships
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Why are U.S. salt marshes falling apart?
Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern seaboard and other highly developed coastlines, without anyone fully understanding why. A new paper reports that...
Swings and Roundabouts and Biofuel
The European Commission says clearing land in order to plant biofuel crops can often cancel out the environmental benefits of biofuel. In some cases forests are chopped down. The EU is putting a cap of 5% on the food...
A clearer picture?
In my role as Internet Consulting Editor for Annals of Botany, I spend a fair amount of time counteracting the idea that the job is all about jumping on the latest Internet fad, or in being in some way a...
