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Tales of tethers and tentacles: golgins in plants
As plant Golgi bodies move through the cell along the actin cytoskeleton, they face the need to maintain their polarized stack structure whilst receiving, processing and
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Plants with ants
Ant-plant mutualisms play key roles in the functioning of tropical ecosystems, and are often important components of trophic webs but the net benefits to each
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Maize seed ‘Feed me’ gene identified
Unlike ‘Audrey 2’ – the plant which ate members of the cast from ‘The Little Shop of Horrors’ (botanically suspect but with some good songs) – the maize
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Inspiring the Next Generation of Plant Science Researchers
A single well-designed and timely intervention can influence future student behavior and offers a framework of potential use.
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Root Research comes to the UK
2012 is a big year for roots researchers. The International Society of Root Research is holding its big event in the UK for the first time.
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The future of plant science
Plant science is key to addressing the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century. In an article published in The Plant Cell, the two researchers
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Phenomics – technologies to relieve the phenotyping bottleneck
Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the need to breed high-yielding crops adapted to future climates and the
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Being Social
The aim of the AoB blog is to “promote the science of botany”, be it the botany that is published in Annals of Botany, in AoB
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The mysteries of movement proteins
To establish a systemic infection, plant viruses invade neighboring cells via cell to cell movement trough plasmodesmata channels until they reach the vascular system. This cell
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Open Access Plant Science – Every Week of the Year
You can afford to worry about medical research once you have enough food to eat.
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Reactions of Nicotiana species to inoculation with begomoviruses
The inability of begomoviruses to systemically infect several Nicotiana species is likely due to inhibition of virus movement rather than replication and provides a novel model to study virus-host interactions in resistant/susceptible hosts.
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Vanda Miss Joaquim
A.J. Cann: I posted here recently about my orchid addiction, and Vanda is one of my favourite genera, so it was fascinating to read the