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Ecosystems

How does environment affect biodiversity? Did Humboldt get it right?

Modern botanists have revisited sites examined by Alexander von Humboldt. Have modern advances made the German polymath’s work irrelevant?

by Fi GennuJanuary 22, 2023January 22, 2023
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Plant Cuttings

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part III

by Nigel ChaffeyFebruary 27, 2020March 2, 2020
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Annals of Botany News in Brief

Cultivation of Jatropha shows the importance of conservation

Jatropha curcas could be an oil crop with major biofuel potential, but the breeding germplasm has little variation. Botanists have found that there is genetic potential in previously overlooked non-toxic jatropha, but it needs conservation.

by Fi GennuNovember 13, 2019November 11, 2019
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AoB PLANTS News in Brief

Bromeliads going batty: pollinator partitioning among sympatric chiropterophilous Bromeliaceae

by William SalterMay 13, 2019May 13, 2019
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Dioon in the wild
Annals of Botany Featured

Aridification as driver of plant evolution

Aridification has been a major force in cycad evolution, says José Said Gutiérrez-Ortega. It helps to explain why cycads were capable to adapt and diversify in the modern habitats, even when they originated in the early evolution of land plants.

by José Said Gutiérrez-OrtegaJanuary 31, 2018January 31, 2018
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This is the El Gigante rockshelter in the western highlands of Honduras.
News

Archaeologists surprised by large maize at El Gigante

The discovery of ancient large maize corn cobs at the El Gigante rockshelter might change how we think about the earliest complex societies in Central America.

by Dale MayleaAugust 8, 2017
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Biomechanics of rhizophores in Rhizophora mangroves
Annals of Botany

Biomechanics of rhizophores in Rhizophora mangroves

Rhizophora mangle supports a thinner stem of higher mechanical resistance when compared to Avicennia germinans, a co-existing mangrove lacking rhizophores.

by botanyoneMay 22, 2015May 21, 2015
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Clam shell midden
Articles

Biodiversity flourishes in an ancient rubbish tip

by Alun SaltMay 7, 2015May 6, 2015
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Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

High-impact research

Plant species that survived the K–Pg extinction event had fast-growth ecological strategies corresponding to high assimilation rates & low carbon investment

by Nigel ChaffeyMarch 31, 2015March 12, 2015
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Bat-pollination in Tillandsia
Articles

Halloween Special: First record of bat-pollination in Tillandsia

by AJ CannOctober 31, 2014October 22, 2014
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An unwanted caterpillar
Articles

Sweet nectar gives ferns a bitter taste

by Alun SaltJuly 31, 2014July 30, 2014
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Sun/shade conditions and seedling recruitment in a cactus
Annals of Botany

Sun/shade conditions and seedling recruitment in a cactus

by botanyoneFebruary 18, 2013February 8, 2013
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Image: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942/ Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Plant Cuttings

Potential new fertiliser

by Nigel ChaffeyDecember 6, 2012December 3, 2012
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  3. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

  4. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 18, 2023

    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

  5. Patrick Collins on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

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