A recent report places AoB PLANTS Handling Editor Kermit Ritland at the center of a commercial breeding programme of paw paw. “This guy Si Brown is so interesting” Kermit comments; “[He] made a cold call to me one day, that is the way venture capitalists work. Si got a degree in Plant Ecology from McGill University but ended up in business, and does all these high-end business deals […] Botany and business can work together.”
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Ecosystems
A garden plant called Kalanchoe × houghtonii is spreading along Mediterranean coasts and may be pushing out native plants that normally grow there.
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The dunes of barrier islands erode during storm events but they also prevent damage to inland ecosystems. For these dunes to function in this way, vegetation
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Climate change-induced drought has already contributed to increased plant mortality around the globe, including in forest ecosystems. Drought events are projected to become even more
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