Close Encounters
Tricky flowers: how floral variation in a food-deceptive orchid is maintained over generations
Sometimes it’s a good idea not to send a consistent message to your pollinators.
Computational Models
Plant-mSubP: a machine learning tool to predict single- and multi-target protein subcellular localisation
Plant cells are three-dimensional spaces composed of several compartments, each with its own physicochemical environment and function. The subcellular localisation of proteins, the cell’s
Cells, Genes & Molecules
How a conifer spread between isolated mountain-tops: the demographic history of Podocarpus latifolius/milanjianus
Were there land-bridges in the past that enabled trees to travel from mountaintop to mountaintop?
Growth & Development
The tale (or phenology) of two wild blueberries in Canada
Do you like eating big blueberries? The little berries are not only packed with anthocyanins but you might have actually eaten different species of blueberries without noticing.
Close Encounters
Koalas up a gum tree, but having the last laugh..?
Koalas break the local stereotype by being Australians who don’t drink. Or so it was thought.
Growth & Development
Aspen, they grow up so… weirdly.
Aspen possesses enormous levels of genotype-based intraspecific variation.
Close Encounters
Interspecific hybridization between Camelina sativa and C. microcarpa
Work continues trying to boost Camelina’s value as an oilseed crop.
Growth & Development
Sulphur deficiency leads to delayed senescence in barley
Deficiency led to reduction of proteases and nitrogen mobilization in senescing leaves.
Growth & Development
To C4 or not to C4 if you’re a tree? Some possible answers
C4 photosynthesis is an efficient way of harnessing energy, yet trees rarely use it. Why is that?
Plants & People
Now is the time start a nature diary
You can help nature by making a little time for yourself.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Invasion, isolation and evolution shape population genetic structure in Campanula rotundifolia
The genes of Harebell populations show the history of post-glacial colonisation.
Close Encounters
Grasses invading a sub-Antarctic Island respond to rising temperatures, at a cost
Changing temperatures on Marion Island will remove restraints holding back invasive grasses.