Taxonomy & Evolution
Botanist goes Gaga for ferns
Botanists are getting competitive when it comes to naming plant species. Duke University has announced that a whole genus of ferns, with 19 known species, has
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Evernote on offer for a limited time
There’s an odd special offer on Evernote for a limited time. You can buy 15 months of the Premium service for $29. The usual price
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Wicked Plants
Dr Caitlin Kight recently broadcast a programme on SourceFM about the nastier side of plants. You can view the in-studio video recording here or on her YouTube channel.
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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
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Virtually Visit the 2012 Plant Sciences Symposium at UW-Madison
In terms of accessibility, the graduate students at UW-Madison look to beat a few major conferences this year with live streaming of their Plant Sciences
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Unwinding the Cucumber Tendril Mystery
This video from a recent Science Friday finds a cucumber doing something truly bizarre. What happens when you grab a coiled cucumber tendril and pull it?
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Connecting you with plant scientists on Google+
We’re adding a couple of things for Google+ users from our page. They both tackle a problem that particularly affects new users, that Google+ can
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The Wollemi Pine and Jurassic* Bark
“It’s the equivalent of finding a Tyrannosaurus rex in your back yard,” said Jimmy Turner, Director of Horticultural Research at Dallas Arboretum. His words echoed those of . It’s either a triumph of marketing or a millstone round the neck of botanists who think the Wollemi Pine should have a place
Reviews
Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke: Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine by Pennachio, Jefferson and Havens
Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke is a book I stumbled upon while looking for something else. It’s tempting to say it’s a very niche subject; the authors say this is the first book on the topic. After reading the introduction I’ve no reason to doubt what the authors say is true, but they make s
Plants & People
Social media and Google Analytics – who’s interested in botany?
We’re coming round to our annual assessment here at AoBBlog. Spurred by JSTOR Plants and their blog post on Social Media we’re sharing our
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Dogs, blossom and wine
The life led by the ancients was rude and illiterate; still, as will be readily seen, the observations they made were not less remarkable for ingenuity
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New Special Issue: Plant Mating Systems
We have a new special issue out on Plant Mating Systems, with a couple of free access posts. Gynodioecy to dioecy: are we there yet? by