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Biodiversity flourishes in an ancient rubbish tip
The preservation of archeological sites does not always overlap with the conservation of biodiversity. At the most basic level, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
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For one flower, bad hair days are the best days
If you want to please Leucospermum arenarium (Proteaceae) you’d better leave brushes and combs alone, as it has an unusual way to get pollinated. Plenty
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Ecologists make their own flowers to study moths
Thanks to JSTOR Global Plants for pointing to an interesting paper in Functional Ecology, Shape matters: corolla curvature improves nectar discovery in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta.
Growth & Development
The European Space Agency goes back to its roots
The roots are Arabidopsis roots. They’ll be flying, along with the rest of the plant, on a parabolic flight to see how they react to
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes
My phone died, so I’m catching up with podcasts. One I listen to is by the people behind QI, No Such Thing As A Fish.
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Analysis of a Corpus of Scientific Article Titles Across Eight Academic Disciplines Finds That Article Titles in Botany Can Be Much Longer Than in Other Disciplines, But If You Ignore the Outliers They’re Not That Different
The Annals of Botany has been put under the microscope, along with a few other journals in a study that aims to find out what is
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Botanists uncover the secrets of sexual attraction
An interesting paper has moved into free access in Annals of Botany: Caught in the act: pollination of sexually deceptive trap-flowers by fungus gnats in
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AmJBot explains Auxin to the perplexed
I’m delighted that there’s a review of Auxin in this month’s American Journal of Botany, Auxin activity: Past, present, and future by Enders
Plants & People
Find Article PDFs easily with Lazy Scholar
Looking to speed up your research? The Lazy Scholar extension for Google Chrome is now even more helpful. I’ve mentioned Lazy Scholar before, but it’
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What should the science fiction of tomorrow look like?
I’ve been reading with interest about Hieroglyph, the first anthology of science fiction stories from Project Hieroglyph based at ASU. The idea is that inspirational
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Why would a plant make its pollination less efficient?
The special issue on pollinator-driven speciation is available with free access now. We covered a few of the papers last year, but now they’re
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If you put someone in a room with enough bananas, will they age?
I was driving to a wedding on Saturday, when bananas came up as a topic on the Rhod Gilbert show. The question came up, would putting