A new database of leaves promise not only to help identify plants around us, but also to identify plants known only from fossils.
Tag - leaves
Dale Maylea
Visually stunning: Flora for juvenile – and adult – fauna
Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants by DK [Dorling Kindersley] with contribution by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2018. Dorling Kindersley. Dorling Kindersley’s Flora: Inside the secret world of plants [hereafter...
Nigel Chaffey
When does Acacia koa know it’s time to grow up?
Sometimes the best strategy for a young plant is not the same as the best strategy for an old plant. Some heteroblastic plants can switch how they grow but what triggers this?
Alun Salt
Botanists see the start of tropicalisation
With climate change, plants start colonising new areas, but how will new regions become tropical? A new study hints at the start of the process.
Fi Gennu
Traits control the digestibility-decomposition relationship
Fibre concentration and dry matter content can be considered as good predictors of both digestibility and decomposability.
botanyone
What do you know about leaves???
Nature’s Fabric: Leaves in Science and Culture by David Lee, 2017. University of Chicago Press. Ever so occasionally one comes across a book that makes one think, “That’s the book I’d like to have written”. Well...
Plant anatomy goes back to its roots (stems, leaves…)
Does "Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy" cover the essentials of developmental plant anatomy? Nigel Chaffey looks over the introductory textbook.
Silicon enhances leaf remobilization of iron in cucumber
Recently it has been demonstrated that Si nutrition can alleviate Fe deficiency chlorosis in cucumber (Cucumis sativus) by enhancing acquisition and root-to-shoot translocation of Fe. Here, Pavlovic et al. show that Si...
Coping with phenol-rich foodstuffs
We rightly salute fungi and bacteria as being indispensable to the decomposition processes that breaks down dead organic matter into inorganic components that can then be recycled through the biosphere in those all...
Plant Science at the leading edge
In aeroplane design, the leading edge is either “the part of the wing that first contacts the air … or … the foremost edge of an airfoil section“. Plants – as one might expect – have a different take on that (and got...
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Looks like leaf-like lizards live longer
Draco cornutus lizards live longer thanks to leaf-like colouration and mimicry.
Clear way ahead for leaf research
Scientific Data: an open-access, online-only journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, to help publish, discover & reuse research data.
AJ Cann