Reviews
Hearing you loud and clear…
Plant Sensing & Communication. Richard Karban. University of Chicago Press, 2015 It is said that we have two ears and one mouth because we should listen
AoB PLANTS
Contrasting strategies to cope with drought conditions by two tropical forage C4 grasses
Drought severely limits forage productivity of C4 grasses across the tropics. Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and Brachiaria hybrid cv. Mulato II are tropical C4 grasses used
Plant Cuttings
Will a Martian save the Earth?
Plant scientists are essential to help provide solutions to three of the most important current and future threats to mankind’s existence on the planet – food security, water supply and climate change. But as universities close plant biology courses we have to ask: Where are those plant scientists t
annals-of-botany
Meta-analysis of autumn senescence in the northern hemisphere
Gill et al. conduct a meta-analysis of studies that report the timing of autumn leaf senescence in the northern hemisphere and show that increased temperatures are associated with larger senescence delays at low latitudes than at high latitudes.
annals-of-botany
Leaf senescence varies widely across species and sites
Climate change is altering leaf senescence phenology but variation in the phenology of leaf senescence among species & locations is still poorly understood.
AoB PLANTS
Natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana differ in seedling responses to high temperature stress
Little is known about adaptive within-species thermotolerance variation in wild plants despite its likely role in functional adaptation at range limits and in predicting response
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Plant Science for the Future (AoB at IPMB Part Two)
The 11th Congress of International Plant Molecular Biology took place at Iguazú Falls, located at the Argentine-Brazilian border. Our guest blogger Michelle Cotta
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Inspiring new discoveries of the nature of plant life at the molecular level (AoB at IPMB Part One)
The 11th Congress of International Plant Molecular Biology took place at Iguazú Falls, located at the Argentine-Brazilian border. This was an outstanding event, co-organized
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Where were the first domesticated olives?
Was the Olive tree domesticated once or twice? New Phytologist has been weighing the evidence for both arguments recently, but the answer remains elusive.
Plant Cuttings
Plant-insect relationships, a double-edged sword
Flowering plants have had an intimate relationship with insects for millions of years. Indeed, this is often cited as an example of co-evolution , particularly with regards to the flowers and their pollination by the insects. However, this has also given parasites millions of years to adap
annals-of-botany
Plants and climate change: complexities and surprises (review)
Camille Parmesan and Mick E. Hanley introduce the special issue with a review of some of the surprises so far with plant responses to anthropogenic climate
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All is number? A faster way to analyse plant root images
A paper in JXB offers new way to analyse root networks. Reducing a root system to a graph might look like a step away from reality, but it allows for a lot of rapid high-quantity analysis of root systems.