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The Biodiversity Hidden Beneath Alder
Some Alnus trees retreated to Colchis in the last Ice Age before expanding their range in the warming climate. Did their symbiotic partners do the same?
annals-of-botany
Spontaneous hybridization in wild roses
A propensity to form polyploid hybrids is a peculiar feature of roses. Herklotz and Ritz investigate the population genetics of forty five mixed stands of dog
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Shenzhen – City of 7000 Botanists #IBC2017
The conference is in full swing Jeff Ollerton’s latest post makes clear that this is a massive event, with almost 7000 Botanists in attendance, and
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Greetings from Shenzhen! #IBC2017
I thought with Shenzhen being inside the GreatFirewall, I would either need to help people with tweeting from IBC2017 or else I could take some time
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany 6
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annals-of-botany
Impact of transposable elements on polyploid plant genomes
Transposable elements (TEs), together with polyploidization have a key role in plant evolution, generating changes in genome size, as well as acting as a source for
Reviews
Resource: The Chicago Guide to Fact–Checking
How can you make the process of fact-checking easier, so you know what you’re saying is accurate? Ian Street finds a useful resource.
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Preparing for #IBC2017 and tweeting from China
Six years after IBC18 in Melbourne comes the International Botanical Congress in Shenzen. Yet it might be quieter on social media than the 2011 conference. We have made plans.
AoB PLANTS
Sex-specific functional traits in cycads
The Mesozoic is often referred to as the “age of cycads”. During this period, dinosaurs roamed vast cycad forests, yet modern cycads are a vestige of
annals-of-botany
Polyploidy and interspecific hybridization shape adaptation, speciation and evolution
About half of all higher plant species are recognizable as evolutionarily recent polyploids, where multiple whole genomes or sets of chromosomes have come together from close
Plant Cuttings
Skating on thin ice..?
It seems we can expect the Arctic to go green in future years – but that won’t be good news for species threatened by Climate Change.
Ecosystems
Climate change could increase biodiversity – if a location already has biodiversity
Climate change could increase biodiversity with a couple of provisos, and those provisos are important.