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Plant Records: The (Almost) Invisible Giant
Name: Tiama African Mahogany Scientific name: Entandrophragma excelsum Known for: Being freakishly good at hiding despite its size Record broken: Height There was a surprising article
Notes from the Editor
AoBBlog, Spruced Up and Ready for 2017
As the year draws to a close, we have been working hard behind the scenes to make AoBBlog ready for 2017. The biggest changes have been
AoB PLANTS
Combining incidence and demographic modelling approaches to evaluate metapopulation parameters for an endangered riparian plant
Metapopulations are a central concept in ecology and conservation biology, however estimating key parameters such as colonization rates presents a substantial obstacle to modeling metapopulations in
Growth & Development
Could drought stress in trees affect air quality?
With climate change, trees will experience an increased frequency of stress events (i.e. drought, heat stress) causing both direct effects (e.g. CO2 uptake through
AoB PLANTS
Influence of management regime and harvest date on the forage quality of rangelands plants: the importance of dry matter content
Despite their recognised ecological value, relatively little is known about the nutritional value of species-rich rangelands for herbivores. In a recent study published in AoB
Plant Cuttings
C4 Wheat? Lend an ear to hear more
One of the Grand Challenges – and, arguably, the Holy Grail – of plant research at present is an attempt to improve the photosynthetic efficiency of plants. Somewhat
annals-of-botany
The transition from scalariform-to-simple vessel perforation plates
Flowering plants with simple vessel perforations have evolved from species bearing scalariform perforations but there is a scarcity of integrative studies explaining why these transitions in
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Cryopreservation on the farm and in the news
Almost all the milk we drink will come from cows whose father’s sperm was frozen. It is quite likely that their father himself was an
AoB PLANTS
The use of plant community attributes to detect habitat quality in coastal environments
The monitoring of biodiversity has focused mainly on the species level. However, researchers and land managers are making increasing use of complementary assessment tools that address
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4 Reasons Sunflowers Face The Sun
There’s been advances in knowing how sunflowers track the sun, but botanists are still arguing over why. And, to make things confusing, they could all be right.
AoB PLANTS
Foraging responses of bumblebees to rewardless floral patches: Importance of within-plant variance in nectar presentation
Nectar-foraging pollinators respond flexibly to the reward condition of floral patches. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Nakamura and Kudo compared foraging behaviours
Plant Cuttings
Gardeners 1: Snails 0…
We at Cuttings HQ hate waste. So, when, and rather belatedly, spring-cleaning the Cuttings’ archives in August 2016, I unearthed a news item penned for