Plants & People
Botanists and plants solving the problems of the world at #IBC18
The programme at #IBC18 shows how botanical science has moved forward at an unprecedented rate since IBC17 in 2005. Not only has the science advanced, but
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International Botanical Congress 18 Melbourne #IBC18
This week, a good proportion of the world’s botanists will be meeting in Australia for the 6-yearly International Botanical Congress. Actually, the hard work
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Networks, systems biology and data analysis
In my research, I always seem to be somewhere near the extremes of having too much data or not having enough data to address the questions
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Early summer and the hedgerows: elderflower champagne
Early summer brings the elderflower (Sambucus nigra, either a variable species or a species complex) into flower in hedgerows, woodland openings and waste ground throughout Europe.
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Book reviews and a poll – what about ‘bad’ books?
Development of thoughts or ideas, and dissemination of techniques or methods, happens not only in the pages of Journals or on the web, but in books
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Bananas, disease, diversity, research and The One Show
Our favourite fruit, the banana, is threatened by fungal, viral and bacterial diseases. This was discussed on the BBC TV programme ‘The One Show’ on 13
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Presentations and purpose
Several AoBBlog.com posts have discussed presentations, because both teaching and conference talks are such an important part of what many botanists are doing – telling people
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Charles Darwin and the Origins of Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology
I often quote the last paragraph of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species: “It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of
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Paying to read or paying for publication: what do you get?
Why not simply post your manuscript on your own or your Institute’s webserver, at minimal cost, fast and available to all? Following Annals of Botany’
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Missing my own talk, communities, networks and journal development
Individually, as researchers and scientists, we want to read high-quality information, we want to find everything that is relevant to our interests, we want our
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Information overload and links: blogs, social networks and scholarly journals
Next week, a virtual conference is addressing some very pertinent questions of universal relevance to science. In fact, CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for
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Open Access in Annals of Botany – low costs allowing more pages
The information here is no longer current at 1/1/2019. Annals of Botany offers Open Access with competitive Article Processing Charges (APCs) given in our