Plant Science Research

Natural high CO2 springs across the world

Can plants fast forward to the future to show us what will happen as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases?

Gail Taylor - November 13, 2018

Researching Pollen Illuminating the Invisible

Waking up to respiration: leaf respiration in the light alters our interpretation of ecosystem carbon fluxes

Call for Papers: Plant growth modelling and applications to agro-ecology and plant phenotyping

New CO2 microsensor reveals old secrets of plants

Latest Posts

Actin cytoskeleton, plant growth and development in Arabidopsis root hair mutant...

Alex Assiry - November 16, 2018

The DER1 (deformed root hairs1) locus encodes a major vegetative actin (ACTIN2) in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mutations in DER1 lead to impaired root hair development....

Effects of growth under different light spectra on subsequent high light...

William Salter - November 16, 2018

Light is the original source of energy for plant photosynthesis and growth, but it also acts as a signal for morphogenesis and many other...

Lateral root initiation and formation in Cucurbita pepo: is auxin a...

Alex Assiry - November 15, 2018

In most plant species, initiation of lateral roots occurs above the elongation zone. However, in Cucurbitaceae it takes place in the parental root meristem....

Pitcher plants eat their spider competitors

Alun Salt - November 13, 2018

Some spiders go after the same prey that pitcher plants want. What happens when the two compete?

Botanists set the relationship status of Plants, Pollinators and Antagonists to “It’s complicated”

News in Focus Alun Salt - November 1, 2018

Virus gives light a dark side

News in Focus Alun Salt - October 30, 2018

Aldrovanda vesiculosa, the Fly Trap’s endangered cousin

News in Focus Alun Salt - October 17, 2018

Synthetic auxin resistance in wild radish is still an enigma

Annals of Botany Guest Author - October 4, 2018

A changing climate can help exotic plants escape gardens

News in Brief Alun Salt - November 15, 2018

Plants brought in by gardeners for horticultural reasons can turn invasive. Research published by an international team from the US, Europe and China finds that climate change could increase the competitiveness of non-naturalized species.

Tree root dynamics in mountain forests

Annals of Botany Alex Assiry - November 14, 2018

Spanish mistletoe travels

Articles Alun Salt - November 14, 2018

Deacclimation kinetics as a quantitative phenotype for delineating the dormancy transition and thermal efficiency for budbreak in Vitis species

AoB PLANTS William Salter - November 14, 2018

Methanol-induced cell signalling processes

Annals of Botany Alex Assiry - November 13, 2018

Fusoid cells: a developmental approach in Poaceae

Annals of Botany Alex Assiry - November 12, 2018

Pollinator-mediated selection on floral traits varies in space and between morphs in Primula secundiflora

AoB PLANTS William Salter - November 12, 2018

Botany Too on Instagram

Plants are weird – and rather wonderful too!

Nigel Chaffey - November 12, 2018

Cell cycle duration in the root apical meristem (RAM) of angiosperms

Alex Assiry - November 9, 2018

Sphagnoid areolation pattern in leaves of Palaeozoic protosphagnalean mosses

Alex Assiry - November 9, 2018

Evolution of nectar spur length in a clade of Linaria

Alex Assiry - November 8, 2018

SLAD: Subero-lignified apical deposit in the root tip