Does Viagra really help preserve flowers?
It is said that sildenafil citrate can help preserve flowers. Here’s an experiment that you could do at home, but probably shouldn’t, to find out. More
Alun Salt
Alun is the Producer for Botany One. It's his job to keep the server running. He's not a botanist, but started running into them on a regular basis while working on writing modules for an Interdisciplinary Science course and, later, helping teach mathematics to Biologists. His degrees are in archaeology and ancient history.
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Nature Table – BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 has a new science-comedy crossover show. More
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The Next Generation of Natural Historians
The Linnean Society held its second student conference last Friday, Student Spotlights 2020: Discover the next generation of natural historians. I had hoped to go to last year’s event, but that was squashed by a sudden migraine. My visit this year showed that I’d probably missed out on something fascinating. The description was “In this […] More
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Grow your own Martian salad
A Martian diet might aid your health on Earth (but there are probably better interventions you should try first) More
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From stable rules to complex shapes in plant modelling
How can models capture the complexity and variation of plant phenotypes? Vidal and Andrieu have taken a look at maize. More
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How do plants perceive damage to themselves?
Plants use receptor proteins on the surface of their cells to recognise danger signals from pathogens. A paper recently published by Li, Wang and Mou in Plant Physiology discusses recent work that finds that plants sense signals from damaged cells in a similar manner. As pathogens are recognised from pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) so too damage is detected […] More
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Plants can prepare soils to give other plants protection against pests
It’s known that microbes in the soil can help plants fight pests. Now research published in New Phytologist shows that plants can be used to create anti-pest microbiomes. More
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How does partnership work for a lichen in the Antarctic?
Lichens are partnerships between algae and fungi. In the Antarctic Lichens offer algae shelter against the cold, but also an uncertain future. More
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Plant Records: The plant that coordinates its colours for the occasion
It’s thought that flowers have colours to attract visitors, but it seems that’s not always the case. More
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Plant records: Most overdue library book?
Name: the ‘En Tibi’ herbariumScientific name: ‘En tibi perpetuis ridentem floribus hortum‘ [‘Here for you a smiling garden of everlasting flowers’]Known for: not being of known originRecord broken: Most overdue library book? If you ever want to start an argument between two historians of science, ask them when a scientific field started. The problem is that creating a line […] More
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“Plant” Records: The Planet’s Biggest Pollinator
Once again, people underestimate the effect this mammal can have on wildlife. More
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Plant Records: The world’s most common group of plants is…
…is ‘rare’ plants. A recent article in Science Advances labelled over a third of species as ‘exceedingly rare’. More
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