The Linnean Society held its second student conference last Friday, Student Spotlights 2020: Discover the next generation of natural historians. I had...

Plants & People

Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?

Guest Author - February 3, 2020 0

It is well-known that people are better at identifying animals than plants and this relative inability of people to identify plants is...

Computational Models

A new whole-plant framework simulates realistic water and carbon flow

Rachel Shekar - January 21, 2020 0

CPlantBox generates a variety of 3D full plant architectures and accurately simulates water and carbon flow in the full plant.

Ecosystems

Resource allocation trade-offs in a mast-seeding conifer

William Salter - January 13, 2020 0

Three key functions are required for the long-term persistence of tree populations in a landscape. Broadly speaking, trees must acquire and allocate...

Close Encounters

How does partnership work for a lichen in the Antarctic?

Alun Salt - December 18, 2019 1

Lichens are partnerships between algae and fungi. In the Antarctic Lichens offer algae shelter against the cold, but also an uncertain future.

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Plant Records : the (very, very, very) old pine tree

Guest Author - December 9, 2019 0

How old is OLD?

Cells, Genes & Molecules

How important is meat to a curious carnivorous plant?

Alun Salt - November 27, 2019 1

Drosophyllum lusitanicum, also known as the Portuguese sundew or dewy pine, is unusual even for carnivorous plants in that it lives in dry environments. Typically, carnivorous plants live in nutrient-poor wetlands, so does it really gain much from carnivory?

Plants & People

Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…

Nigel Chaffey - November 20, 2019 2

School lessons devoted to plants may be off-putting to those students who are already plant-averse. So, why not smuggle bits of plant information into lessons on topics as diverse as Geography, History, Art & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?

Articles

BioGO, a treasure hunt to teach biology

Guest Author - November 12, 2019 1

It's hard for students to do their own thing on an introductory course, when you have an intake of hundreds. The easy way is to rely on lectures, but at the Université catholique de Louvain, they do things differently.

Articles

StomaToy — Learning Plant Defence Through Play

Guest Author - November 5, 2019 0

Stomata are necessary for photosynthesis, but they're also access points for pathogens. How do plants defend them?

in silico Plants

We asked the members of the in silico Plants editorial board what they do to achieve work/life balance.

Rachel Shekar - November 1, 2019 0

This is what they said:

Annals of Botany

A fern thought to grow on trees still keeps a root on the ground

Alun Salt - October 22, 2019 0

The Aspleniaceae is a family of ferns, some of which are terrestrial and some of which are epiphytes. A new study has found a rarity, a hemiepiphyte.

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