Plants on Earth being productive at some point in their life cycles is critical for their – and our lives. Productivity is also a common new year’s resolution for humans. Productivity in plants means photosynthesis...
Tag - Resources
Ian Street
iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
How you can use online herbaria to learn about plants
As part of Plant Facts Week (#PlantFactsWeek🌱) we present this post about online herbaria and the great things you can learn about plants and get involved in a citizen science project from Louise Marsh...
Guest Author
Sharing scientific code: A short introduction to Git and GitHub
Planning to work with code? Git and Github are free tools to help share your source code.
New Resources Editor vows to review ALL the resources
It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Ian Street to our editorial team. Ian will be taking on the role of our first ever Resources Editor. What is a Resources Editor, I hear you ask – let me explain. At AoBBlog...
Anne Osterrieder
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
Science teaching resource
Relatively new to me – so maybe new to some of my devoted legion of readers (many of whom may be involved in teaching science, plant or otherwise) and therefore worthy of sharing – is news of the Understanding Science...
Nigel Chaffey
A new Creative Commons search for botany photos on Flickr
We changed the template we use for AoB Blog to HTML5 last week. We’re still using similar CSS, so there’s not a huge change in how the site looks, but there is a big change in how it is put together. It...
Alun Salt