Tag - Journal of Experimental Botany

New PLANT journals (yay!)

Until this item, the last launch of a new plant journal I shared with you was for the august publication Nature Plants (although in its 3rd year of publication, it still awaits an Impact Factor. Will it get one before...

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Scaring the crows…

One way of increasing crop productivity is to increase the amount of grain or other harvestable product that is actually harvested from the plant. To that end scarecrows  were invented by human beings, although their...

Image: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen. Gera-Untermhaus, 1897.

Phytonumeracy

Echoing a plea from Ron Milo and Robert Last that computational methods [which is sort of ‘math(s)’…] should be used to gain deeper understanding of the fundamental principles that govern regulation of metabolic...

Image: Greek ceramic, ca. 490–480 BC, Louvre Museum.

Black = white + grey(!?)

No, not messing with colours, but a reference to Silvia Vezzulli et al.’s work on Pinot blanc and Pinot gris wine grape cultivars. The team have discovered that the ‘white’ and ‘grey’ (which refer to their berry...