Juniper Kiss
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Juniper Kiss is a globe-trotting plant scientist and data-lover, Botany One Guest Editor and former writer, loves pretty plots, digi solutions, working with landowners, brambles and bananas.
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The wonders of leaf hydraulics: efficiency-safety trade offs in woody plants
A high biomechanical resistance was found to be associated with considerable hydraulic safety
From branches to entire trees and forests: a new laser scanning-based model improves estimations
New laser technology can measure faster and more accurately.
Fascination of Fruits and Vegetables
Special edition of Fascination of Plant Day infographics.
Fascination of Plants and Drones
Drones are helping find plants hiding where humans cannot go.
Tropical islands lead to more diversity in Palm sexual reproduction
Isolation and sexual adaptability contributed to the evolution of thousands of palm species.
The way humans introduced Australian acacias led to the rise of the worst invasive trees
Botanists collated genetic data from 51 different genetic studies on Acacia species to compare genetic diversity between native and invasive populations.
Pink monkeyflowers are a sign of local adaptation
Botanists find petal colour can signal a monkeyflower’s drought tolerance.
Flies can be pollen thieves but plants deal with them
Some plants tackle thieves and pollinators eating pollen by producing enough both to feed visitors and fertilise available ovules.
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