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Shenzhen – City of 7000 Botanists #IBC2017
The conference is in full swing Jeff Ollerton’s latest post makes clear that this is a massive event, with almost 7000 Botanists in attendance, and
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Greetings from Shenzhen! #IBC2017
I thought with Shenzhen being inside the GreatFirewall, I would either need to help people with tweeting from IBC2017 or else I could take some time
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany 6
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Ecosystems
Climate change could increase biodiversity – if a location already has biodiversity
Climate change could increase biodiversity with a couple of provisos, and those provisos are important.
Ecosystems
How a misunderstanding over diet created an ecocide
For years the tale of how the inhabitants of Easter Island depleted their soils and destroyed their ecosystem has been a cautionary tale for western civilisation. There’s just one problem with this as a historical warning – it seems that it never happened.
Plants & People
Introducing The Week in Botany
We get complaints, and when we identify the problem we try to fix them. Sometimes it takes longer than others. We’ve had complaints about our
Plants & People
Illuminating work on bean domestication
What can you do with a light 10 billion times brighter than the sun? One thing you can do is examine 4000 year old seed coatings.
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3 Ways to Tackle Plant Blindness
Plant conservation gets a fraction of the funding that animal conservation gets. A recent paper in Conservation Biology blames Plant Blindness. Is there a solution?
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The Secret Larder of Ancient America
The next big thing on your dinner plate could be plants that were first domesticated five thousand years ago then forgotten about for centuries.
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MELiSSA delivers AstroPlant
We have an interest in plant biology in space here on the blog, so naturally we’re excited about MELiSSA’s AstroPlant desktop greenhouse. Normally we’
AoB PLANTS
What happens if bees disappear?
New research shows that loss of a group of pollinators doesn’t always have a predictable decline in pollination success.
annals-of-botany
Origin of distribution and genetic diversity of a savanna species
Cyclic glaciations were frequent throughout the Quaternary and this affected species distribution and population differentiation worldwide. Combining ecological niche modelling and phylogeographical analysis, this study by