Author: Erin Zimmerman

Erin Zimmerman is a botanist turned science writer and sometimes botanical illustrator. She did her PhD at the University of Montréal and worked as a post-doctoral fellow with the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture. She was a plant morphologist, but when no one wanted to pay her to do that anymore, she started writing about them instead. Her other plant articles (and occasional essays) appear in Smithsonian Magazine, Undark, New York Magazine, Narratively, and elsewhere. Read her stuff at www.DrErinZimmerman.com. Erin can also be found talking about plants and being snarky on Twitter @DoctorZedd.

Cells, Genes & Molecules

Short- and long-term responses to elevated carbon dioxide use the same genetic controls

Growth & Development

Sulphur deficiency leads to delayed senescence in barley

Plants & People

Sketch by Goethe may be first depiction of intraspecific trait variation

Orchid conservation must be guided by an understanding of their ecology

Cells, Genes & Molecules

New insights on the role of cytokinin in nodule formation

Computational Models Growth & Development

Pattern-oriented modelling a useful tool for FSP models when experimental data is lacking

Growth & Development

Hydraulic adjustments are of limited use in bracken fern

Cells, Genes & Molecules Ecosystems

Control of masting may be epigenetic

Taxonomy & Evolution

Morphology is most informative in reconstructing early tracheophyte evolution

Cells, Genes & Molecules Taxonomy & Evolution

Single copy genes produce a clearer phylogeny of the Apioideae