This demo from Science and Plants for Schools demonstrates a quick and easy plant practical for biology labs.
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Golgi Lullaby
Dancing fluorescent Golgi bodies in tobacco leaf cells, visualised with confocal laser scanning microscopy.
Flowering time control by miR159 in gloxinia
Gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa) is a popular ornamental plant with attractive, colourful flowers, but the genetic mechanisms that regulate flowering are largely unknown. Li et al. generate transgenic gloxinia plants that...
botanyone
Bryophytes, the secret plants that surround us
31 minute documentary made for the Philippe De Zuttere Bryological Foundation. Discovery of the plant mosses with Philippe Dezuttere, field bryologist.
What bacteria are in your banana?
Bacteria in innumerable numbers share a deep and integral association with bananas, but show apparently mutualistic benefits with no obvious adverse effect.
AJ Cann
Using Student-Produced Time-Lapse Plant Movies to Communicate Concepts in Plant Biology
Why do students think plants are “boring”? One factor may be that they do not see plant movement in real time.
Ethnobotanical Treasures of the Dominican Republic
A quick post to highlight a new video up from Ina Vandebroek of New York Botanical Garden. This is about how a botella, a mix of herbs is made for healthcare. If you don’t speak Spanish there are English captions...
Alun Salt
Superhero Barley
The International Atomic Energy Authority have released some new videos to their YouTube channel that may interest botanists. The most relevant video is The Birth of Centenario. This is about the breeding of a new...
Taylor Lockwood, mushrooms and the holey veil: DVD video review
We bought a television two years ago. Sadly, despite the 723 channels available, my worst suspicions about quality have been confirmed: there is almost nothing I want to watch, especially now that I have seen everything...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
ChloroFilms – plant videos on YouTube
Jeff Karron (AoB’s “pollen Editor”) recently tipped me off about ChloroFilms, a competition for new videos illustrating remarkable aspects of plant life. Entrants create a relevant video, post it on...
Plant versus Bee Power
Coming up in October we have a paper, ‘Flower power: its association with bee power and floral functional morphology in papilionate legumes‘ by Silvina A. Córdoba and Andrea A. Cocucci, in the journal. The...
Jonathan Drori: The beautiful tricks of flowers
In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants - over a quarter million species - have evolved to attract insects to spread their pollen: growing 'landing-strips' to guide...
