Plants & People
iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
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AoBBlog and Botany One
What happened to AoBBlog and why Botany One? We’re evolving.
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Reciprocal sowing experiment shows local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity
Reciprocal sowing experiments along environmental gradients allow evaluating local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity as in situ mechanisms to cope with climate change. Sánchez et al. used
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Plant Resources III: All the world’s trees in one place
If the POWO is not enough plant database for you [see my previous post], there is also a new database specifically for the world’s trees*
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Climate affects hydraulic and stomatal traits
Hydraulic traits influence the ability of plant species to grow and survive in water-limited environments. Bourne et al. compare hydraulic, anatomical, stomatal and leaf tissue
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Plant Resources II: All the world’s plants (at Kew!)
Well, not quite all. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is home to many living specimens of the world’s flora, and its collections of ‘dead
Ecosystems
Expanding forests can be bad news for the environment
You might think that increasing forest cover is good news in Brazil, but that’s not always the case, according to a new study.
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Call for papers: Developing sustainable bioenergy crops for future climates
Genomics, Phenomics, Stress Tolerance and Emerging Modelling Approaches
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Ethylene perception determines tomato plant growth induction by soil bacteria
Plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) are soil microorganisms able to interact with plants and stimulate their growth, positively affecting plant physiology and development. Ethylene is involved
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany 12
We have a weekly email that we send out Monday mornings curating the botanical links we’ve shared on Twitter. Here’s the one we shared
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Genetics of phenotypic plasticity and biomass traits in hybrid willows
Phenotypic plasticity can have a great impact on the distribution of taxa and the productivity of crops across contrasting environments. Berlin et al. study the genetic
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Plant Resources I: Plant Image Bank
The power of images to convey information – especially in science communication which can often-times be quite complicated – is surely not in doubt. And that is