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...
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Anne Osterrieder
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
Happy International Women’s Day 2012!
“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” ...
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: A series on PlantCellBiology.com from Anne Osterrieder
Anne Osterrieder has a new series on her blog called Faces of plant cell biologists, where we are asked a series of questions. So far, it has featured Charlotte Carroll (also an AoBBlog.com guest author here), Chris...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Using a Virtual Studio and making videoblogs on YouTube
Virtual studios and video blogs: I’ve produced and edited my first videoblogs, and here I’m going to give some indications of how they were made. The videoblogs mean I can tell you about interesting things...
Wise man speaks much sense about online publishing
The Guardian recently carried an interesting interview with Andrew Rashbass, the chief executive of The Economist group. I’m a big fan of The Economist both in its online and print forms, but in this interview...
AJ Cann
The Title Says It All?
Jessica Budke recently published an interesting blog post (Is the Title of your Scientific Publication Important?) about her travails with her second published article: I just had a manuscript accepted for publication...
The mysteries of movement proteins
To establish a systemic infection, plant viruses invade neighboring cells via cell to cell movement trough plasmodesmata channels until they reach the vascular system. This cell to cell movement is an active process...
annbot
Rocks versus Clocks
What happened 670 million years ago? Can’t remember? Doesn’t matter, that’s why we have palaeobotanists. Palaeobotanists that is whose science it seems has been much under-appreciated amidst the high expectations, hope...
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
The New Face of Science in the World
I remember sometime ago when I opened a journal to read a scientific paper, most papers were authored by two or three people from the same laboratory, less often from different laboratories of the same country and...
Mateus Mondin