Can we use electron microscopy and statistical analyses to better classify the trichomes of the large plant genus Solanum?
Tag - Solanum
William Salter
Comparative analysis of repetitive sequences among species from the potato and the tomato clades
The genus Solanum includes important vegetable crops and their wild relatives. Introgression of their useful traits into elite cultivars requires effective recombination between hom(e)ologues, which is partially...
Alex Assiry
Botany, a man’s world?
What do you make of this: ‘In the 18th century, not yet 30 years old, she became the first woman to travel around the world. Along the way she helped collect thousands of plant specimens, some of which were new species...
Nigel Chaffey
Facing the music
Plants are daily subjected to myriad biotic and abiotic factors and have to respond appropriately to them or suffer the consequences. However, one factor they’ve probably not been subjected to for much of their...
