With free digital image editing software has come the temptation to ‘massage’ images so that they look their best.
Tag - science communication
Nigel Chaffey
Non-leaf photosynthesis
Photosynthetic activity of green nectaries can explain a significant part, if not all, of the sugar secreted in nectar.
What’s yellow and dangerous?
Banana pesticides may have led to toxic effects in the blood of caimans in Costa Rica.
The Annals measures up…
Annals of Botany is amongst the ten ‘Top publications’ in botany/plant science!
The science paper THEY TRIED TO SILENCE!
There’s a view that the anti-GM movement is like a mirror of the right-wing anti-science movement against climate change. It’s certainly plausible. Some anti-GM claims are barely reheated arguments from the...
Alun Salt
On track with Plant Trek
Dr Richard Stout's free ‘book’ is entitled Plant Trek, and is focused on GM (genetic modification/manipulation/meddling)/GE (genetic engineering) and plants
Botanists need to be more sociable…
Whether educators like it or not, it's clear that having been brought up on digital/social media tools, students expect to see them used in botany teaching
![Image: Brillouet et al., 2013. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mct168]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/01-Oct-SIZED-align-left.jpg?resize=585%2C300&ssl=1)
Tann-fastic, a new plant organelle(!!)
Jean-Marc Brillouet et al. have identified a new organelle in plant cells: the 'tannosome' is involved in the formation of condensed tannins.
Of Mice & Men or Peas & People: plants as models in modern biology
David Baulcombe's eminently watchable keynote talk from the UK Plant Sciences Federation conference.
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Soil to roots to stem to atmosphere…
Studies show that fog water diffuses directly through leaf cuticles of Drimys brasiliensis and is transported through the xylem to below ground.
