Plants & People
Building a Linux computer for imaging and informatics
I’m going to show my age here, but it is 30 years since I last built my own computer! What a change. The job then
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Genome Editing the Plant and Animal Genomes conference series
It’s now nearly mid-way between Plant and Animal Genome Conferences held each January in San Diego. This is an annual conference where you can
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Ethics and “Such studies taking these factors into account may eventually lead to our better, comprehensive understanding of the association between the”
“Such studies taking these factors into account may eventually lead to our better, comprehensive understanding of the association between the” is a phrase that features in
Plants & People
Crocus, saffron-omics and the highest value crop
Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop
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Plant molecular cytogenetics in the genomic and postgenomic era
The way that we can address questions in genome evolution and expression has changed enormously in the last five years. We can get huge amounts of
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Domestication – rabbits now catching up with plants
Domestication of species is critical for our farming and own nutrition, as well as being important for retrospective studies of evolutionary genetics and future applications in
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Fifty-Thousand Squared
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot I’ve been thinking a lot about the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) with E. coli lately – even more than usual. One impetus has been the paper by Mike Wiser, Noah Ribeck, and me that appeared… See on telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com
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AoB Blog maintenant en français / and now in French AoB Blog
AoBBlog is delighted to welcome two guest authors who are carrying out project work with Annals of Botany Editor Dr Karine Alix. Aurélien and Antoine introduce
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DNA tests, horse meat, Richard III and BBC Radio Leicester Drive Time
DNA testing is an important part of our life now – as we have seen with proving that a skeleton in Leicester comes from the body of
Plants & People
Snow in the botanic gardens
Since every newspaper in the UK is featuring pages of pictures of the snow, I thought I would add some from the Botanic Gardens of the
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Proteaceae, Banksia, Macadamia nuts and the Annals of Botany Cover
Our videoblog discusses plants in the family Proteaceae, a well-known Southern hemisphere family with many beautiful and well-known representatives in Africa and Australia. The
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Suggestions needed for the ten best of everything: plants for botanists
I’m writing an AoBBlog post (or maybe posts) on ten plants that all botanists should know quite a lot about. Criteria for inclusion include importance in the environment, importance to people as food or culturally, scientific interest, global nature, and evolutionary position. What are your suggesti