Digital Botany Focus Issue
The Digital Biodiversity Revolution Needs More Than Data (Part 2)
Digitising a collection is easy. Deciding who owns the knowledge inside it is the hard part.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
The Digital Biodiversity Revolution Needs More Than Data
At Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium, digitisation promised new science, sharper conservation and faster AI. But the hardest questions were about people, power and who benefits.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Editorial Reflection: Digital Botany, One Story at a Time
As Botany One’s Digital Botany Focus Issue comes to a close, this reflection looks back at the people, platforms and hidden labour behind the digital biodiversity revolution.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
María Susana Sánchez Chávez on EDGE, data and conserving Pinus culminicola on the ground in Mexico
Digital botany can do something extraordinary. It can take records, DNA sequences, phylogenetic trees, threat assessments and maps, and use them to highlight species that need
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Introducing Botany One’s Digital Botany Special Focus Issue
Why digital botany matters now
Puzzles
Plant Hunt
9 models that aren't Arabidopsis
Growth & Development
Tree buds need cosy blankets for the spring rather than the winter
It may be that buds in winter are ‘on pause’ and they are in fact prepared to protect their contents in the changeable spring weather.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Lessons from magnolias about past climatic events and plant evolution
Chinese scientists used data from Magnolia plastid genomes to peer back millions of years to understand Cenozoic climatic changes.
Growth & Development
Most Australian shrubs have “sleepy seeds” and seed dormancy types might be driven by rainfall seasonality
Have you ever found it tricky to get some seeds to germinate? You might have wondered if it was the water, or the temperature, or the soil, or perhaps the seeds themselves that are the problem?
Close Encounters
Grapes, mind the (cell wall) barricades against grey mould!
Grape cell walls could explain their susceptibility to fungal disease.
Plants & People
The bright side of Facebook: users catalogue rare plant species in Italy
A new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology highlights how photos in a Facebook group can complement plant scientists’ sightings.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
The wonders of mixing and matching pigments and colourful flowers
A review in The Biochemist draws attention to the importance of flower pigments to help plants cope with environmental stresses.