Cells, Genes & Molecules
Keeping plants off-balance in one location can give a species greater stability
Throwing varying climatic conditions at plant populations can help preserve genetic diversity in a species.
Close Encounters
A warming climate will change plants’ responses to herbivores in different ways
Invasive species might not always have the upper hand when temperatures rise.
Growth & Development
The secret to a good clover crop isn’t luck, it’s timing
Season variability is a major driver of clover architecture and biomass development.
Computational Models
Sub-lethal pesticides might still kill ecosystems
The damage caused by sub-lethal pesticides to pollinators may show up first in plants, not bees.
Ecosystems
Citizen Science meets Urban Botany in Zürich
A citizen science project improves appreciation of plants and the ecological processes they play a part in.
Growth & Development
The economic spectrum of plant carbohydrate storage is blurred
The study implies that the generally overlooked role of storage within the plant economic spectrum represents an important dimension of plant strategy.
Growth & Development
The teardrop explodes, and spreads Orixa japonica
Video captures how an Asian plant catapults its seeds away from the parent.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Newly discovered fossils illuminate a family’s 64 million year development
The fossils highlight the importance of West Gondwana in the evolution of Cunoniaceae.
Growth & Development
Do Thoreau’s observations and herbarium records see the same changes in fruiting?
Thoreau’s last manuscript could help understand the future climate of New England.
Reviews
Gardening, but not just for bumblebees
A book that promises information about gardening for bumblebees delivers much more.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Species delimitation and hybridization history of a hazel species complex
The study combines genetic and physical data to define four groups of hazel plants.
Plants & People
Advancing flowering is altering the dates of some cultural events
Concern that flowers are blooming earlier is about more than wish to return to the good old days.