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7000 botanists together at the 6-yearly Congress #IBC2017
Seven thousand botanists have never come together in one place before. But we are all meeting at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, #IBC2017, this week,
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Preparing for #IBC2017 and tweeting from China
Six years after IBC18 in Melbourne comes the International Botanical Congress in Shenzen. Yet it might be quieter on social media than the 2011 conference. We have made plans.
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JD Hooker Bicentenary
It’s conference season, and we’re starting to visit conferences from the blog. Friday was the JD Hooker Bicentennial Meeting at the Royal Botanic Gardens
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Endemism Hotspots as Climate Change Refugia: A Special Issue of Annals of Botany
Centers of endemism have long been of interest to biogeographers, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists, and more recently to conservation biologists, who often recognize them as biodiversity
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Robert Raguso will reveal The “invisible hand” of floral scent at BOTANY 2015
The Botanical Society of America meeting will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada July 25-29, 2015. This year Dr Robert Raguso of Cornell University will
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Effect of light on anatomical and biochemical aspects of hybrid larch embryos
In larch embryos, light has a negative effect on protein accumulation, but a positive effect on phenol accumulation.
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Growth responses of the mangrove Avicennia marina to salinity
Avicennia marina is an obligate halophyte, requiring saline conditions for development.
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Phylogenetic relationships in Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae), one of the great flowering plant radiations
The largest subfamily of orchids represents one of the most significant diversifications among flowering plants.
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Diversity, distribution and roles of osmoprotective compounds accumulated in halophytes under abiotic stress
This review discusses the diversity of osmolytes among halophytes.
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One hundred and twenty-five years of the Annals of Botany
By August 2012, the Annals of Botany had been published without a break for 125 years.
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Allometric partitioning and the relationship between above- and below-ground plant biomass
Plant size is the primary driver of the biomass allocation pattern for understorey plants in sub-tropical forests.
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Climate change and germination response
Climate change will disrupt the many interactions between biology and climate, including seed germination.