Fruit from the sands: The Silk Road origins of the food we eat by Robert N Spengler III, 2019. University of California Press. In the UK we are blessed with a wide variety and ready availability of fruits all year round in our shops. So commonplace and taken-for-granted is that, I suspect we rarely give […] More
How will coastal ecosystems change when some seedling can tolerate rising tides, and others cannot? More
Lichens are partnerships between algae and fungi. In the Antarctic Lichens offer algae shelter against the cold, but also an uncertain future. More
Contemporary Citation Classics: Winkel-Shirley, B (2001) Flavonoid biosynthesis. A colorful model for genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and biotechnology. Plant Physiology 126, 485-493. [1,839 citations] A while ago, I compiled a list of Contemporary Citation Classics in Plant Sciences. My intention was not just to identify key papers in Plant Sciences but also to discover something […] More
How much water does it take to turn an arid land into a hotbed of new life? More
It’s thought that flowers have colours to attract visitors, but it seems that’s not always the case. More
Aquaporins can change their activity reversibly, if exposed to a change in nutrients. More
Ramoneda et al. propose specific experimental approaches to utilize the wild ancestors of crops to determine whether crop domestication compromised the benefits derived from root microbial symbioses or not. More
Name: the ‘En Tibi’ herbariumScientific name: ‘En tibi perpetuis ridentem floribus hortum‘ [‘Here for you a smiling garden of everlasting flowers’]Known for: not being of known originRecord broken: Most overdue library book? If you ever want to start an argument between two historians of science, ask them when a scientific field started. The problem is that creating a line […] More
Once again, people underestimate the effect this mammal can have on wildlife. More
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