Reviews
A book about trees and fungi, what’s not to like?*
Fungi and trees: Their complex relationships, by Lynne Boddy, 2021. Arboricultural Association. Arbor is the borrowed-from-Latin word for a tree. You’d therefore expect
Computational Models
Should you plant your tomato rows oriented north to south or east to west?
A new study challenges the conventional wisdom of row orientation.
Growth & Development
Mutant clover reveals the connections between carbon and nitrogen fixation for legumes
These results suggest that the super-nodulation phenotype per se did not limit growth.
Growth & Development
Groping in the soil for nutrients encourages root growth
In addition to root proliferation, the root response to a nutrient-rich patch was also accompanied by root hair elongation.
Close Encounters
Cuando cuidar a los polinizadores es literalmente materia de cuidado personal
La polinización manual es sorprendentemente común en la producción de cultivos comercializados globalmente, incluyendo algunos de gran importancia económica.
Growth & Development
In cold weather, rice pollen suffers in a variety of ways as it struggles to develop
A team of botanists in Japan have overturned decades-old assumptions about how cold stress leads to pollen sterility in rice.
Plants & People
Ingresando a un programa de posgrado en los Estados Unidos siendo estudiante de una minoría subrepresentada
El ingreso al posgrado en Estados Unidos puede ser intimidante, especialmente para los/las estudiantes de minorías subrepresentadas. Claire Mauss nos comparte algunos consejos.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
A microscopic investigation of fibre development in Cannabis sativa
Can electron microscopy techniques provide new insights into the development of primary phloem fibres in hemp?
Growth & Development
Foliar nutrient allocation patterns in Banksia attenuata and B. sessilis
Banksia attenuata and Banksia sessilis are in the same genus, but their life strategies reflect how they react to poor nutrition.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Imágenes de fluorescencia revelan el colorido mundo de los compuestos fenólicos de la violeta de Parma
¿Puede la microscopía de fluorescencia ser usada como una herramienta rápida para evaluar cuantitativamente el perfil de compuestos fenólicos de un tejido vegetal vivo?
Uncategorized
Evaluación de los mecanismos de tolerancia a la sal en dos razas locales de cebada tunecina
¿Puede la investigación sobre razas locales brindarnos una mejor comprensión sobre las posibles características que permitirían aumentar la tolerancia a salinidad en cultivos?
Plants & People
Botany provides a tool for defeating art fraud
How do you know that your antique violin really is as old as the seller claims? A close examination of plant cells in the body of the violin could help catch a counterfeiter.