Hikori Sato explains why a living forest isn't just a collection of trees.
Tag - Regeneration
Alun Salt
New maize reference genome may help grow genetically modified lines of corn more easily
The ugly duckling of corn may hold the key to having better grains in the future.
Nadia Mourad Silva
Genetic variation in early fitness traits across European populations of silver birch
How will silver birch populations across Europe be affected by climate change?
William Salter
Wounds divert auxin flow like “rocks in a stream”
The hormone auxin confers stem cell identity on cells surrounding the wound to enable healing.
Erin Zimmerman
How do mangrove forests recover from cyclones?
What happens when cyclones hit mangroves? What happens when there are repeated impacts? Ken Krauss and Michael Osland have been looking at the scientific research to find out.
Germination cues and community assembly in a coastal habitat
Regeneration by seed is a critical process in the life of plants, and germination traits determine the environments that a species can inhabit. Fernández-Pascual et al. study the germination of thirty species from the...
botanyone
Cryopreservation on the farm and in the news
Almost all the milk we drink will come from cows whose father’s sperm was frozen. It is quite likely that their father himself was an embryo transfer bull, who started ‘life’ in frozen in liquid...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Within-species populations exhibit similar physiology under current climate but may diverge under warmer and drier conditions
Recent repeated episodes of drought and high temperatures have resulted in substantial dieback of silver fir in the Spanish Pyrenees. However, mortality has been much greater in populations from the westernmost Pyrenees...
Danielle Marias
Does rain forest grow back? Archaeology might have the answer
Most international archaeological work in South America has concentrated on the Andes for various reasons. It’s more accessible, the ruins are more visible, there’s a better ethnohistorical record from the...
Cerrado ecosystems and the Meskal Daisy on the cover
The third in a series of videoblogs from AoBBlog.com about the background pictures used on Annals of Botany covers. The Youtube link is here, and it is best watched in HD/1080p resolution. An outline of the text is...
