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Registration for the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Volatiles 2016 is open
There will be a Gordon Research Conference on Plant Volatiles January 31 to February 5 2016 on Plant Volatiles chaired by Martin Heil and Dorothea Tholl.
Plants & People
Has Botany got its poster boy?
Botany has always been important but soon it might become likeable too, if a new film starring Matt Damon is a success.
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A simple wildflower garden with a surprising success
A garden planted to attract bees and insects has starting is now visited by something else.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
The Hulk is Green, but is he Organic?
Scotland is to ban GMOs, because there’s more to GMOs than Science. It might sound good, but is it really a way to a more
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Grass – potential killer or just misunderstood?
I remember reading that grass had a huge impact on ecosystems, but maybe missed its best chance to become famous. It’s possible grass would have
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Site glitches
AoB Blog has been getting more visitors recently. We knew that we’d have to move host by October so we had plans to quietly set
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Are all plant pollinators as busy as a bee?
There’s an article recently published in Psyche, that might be of interest to botanists Busy Bees: Variation in Insect Flower-Visiting Rates across Multiple Plant
Reviews
The Nature of Crops by John Warren
I have some serious concerns about this book. My biggest is that CABI’s description of the readership being “For universities and colleges of further and
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How American should an American Chestnut be?
The American Chestnut used to rule the forests of North America. However in the early 20th century a blight almost wiped them out. Billions of trees
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Trees? Tibetan dendrochronologists don’t need trees!
Everyone knows that you can age a tree by counting its rings, and the width of those rings is a record of climate. But do you
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Drinking in the name of SCIENCE!
I’m used to Science driving people to drink, but next week it’s hoped that drink will drive people to Science. The Pint of Science
Plants & People
Science, Politics and Evidence
I write a few of these posts in advance. So this is being written the day before the General Election in the UK to come out