We might think of flowers in terms of their colour and scent, but what about their temperature? A new review in Annals of Botany looks at the thermal ecology of flowers. In the paper Casper van der Kooi and colleagues...
Tag - heliotropism
Alun Salt
A new angle on enhancing crop yield
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on - as Nigel Chaffey finds out.
Nigel Chaffey
4 Reasons Sunflowers Face The Sun
There's been advances in knowing how sunflowers track the sun, but botanists are still arguing over why. And, to make things confusing, they could all be right.
A Christmas Trilogy, Part 2: From Christmas Past to Christmas present…
Still wondering what to get the phytologist who has everything? Well, for botanists on the move (you know the ones, always jetting off to conferences and never having the time to look after their house plants…), this...
