To celebrate International Women's Day, Botany One highlights nine historical figures who made great contributions to Botany - from the first pioneering plant illustrators and species collectors to recent Nobel prize...
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Michela Osnato
International Women’s Day 2017: “Diversity makes my job enjoyable”
For International Women's Day 2017, we asked plant biologist Dr Zoë Popper to write about a typical day in her working life. Here, she reflects on the importance of diversity in her job.
Zoë Popper
Celebrating basic plant science
A new series of blog posts aims to present vignettes of current plant science research within a broader remit of promoting the importance of plant science.
Nigel Chaffey
For He’s A Jolly Good (Senior) Fellow
When I started my PhD I thought about research. In the UK there are no lectures for PhD students, it’s purely about the thesis. It is perfectly feasible to leave a UK university completely ignorant of anything to...
Alun Salt
Problems with models?
Faced with the breathtaking diversity of living things, compromises are made and research effort concentrated in a few selected species – so-called ‘model organisms’ – in the hope that biological discoveries made in...
My favourite colour is structural colour
What do peacocks, CDs and certain plants have in common? They all have multi-coloured parts – feathers, surfaces or petals – which change their hue depending on the angle you look at them. This physical phenomenon in...
Anne Osterrieder
Improving lives through research on banana biodiversity
Numerous communities in developing countries depend on bananas as a staple food and as a source of income. The vast majority of producers are smallholder farmers who grow most of the world production, estimated by the...
Guest Author
Feeding the World – who pays?
The Economist, not noted for its bleeding heart liberal tendencies, has a special report in the February 24th issue on feeding the world. The print edition asks Should we increase spending on agricultural research?, and...
AJ Cann
Arabidopsis all the way?
Forget any notion that botany is boring – if you have any interest in what the day-to-day life of a research scientist is really like, this is the most accurate and most engaging account of “doing science for a living”...
