Growth & Development
In the forest understorey, Spring fires the starting gun on a race to catch sunlight before the forest canopy fills. But changing climates means different plants now start at different times.
Growth & Development
How can isolated trees survive rising heat? Botanists have been looking for microrefugia, small locations with favorable conditions for stressed plants.
Ecosystems
Recent research using Chinese plants reveals why some flowers have giant petals while others barely show theirs.
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Botany One interviews Dr. Ana Bedoya, a Colombian botanist fascinated with the systematics of aquatic plants.
Ecosystems
Botanists are hearing an alarm call alerting the world to habitat loss in Colombia, but it’s not a noise that they hear, it’s silence caused by vanishing bird calls marking lost ecosystems.
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Researchers uncover the real women behind botanical names, turning obscure eponyms into powerful stories of recognition and representation.
The Week in Botany
This week we have gossip from the rhizosphere, why eating melons takes a lot of aardvark, a plant that caters to different pollinators at different times, and more.
Ecosystems
After decades of sparse evidence, a recent study has brought new insights into the seed dispersal strategy of a peculiar African wild melon whose fruits grow hidden beneath the soil.
Ecosystems
The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem.
Plants & People
Insurance data suggests plant theft is increasing, spanning local garden crime to international poaching networks threatening conservation efforts and botanic gardens.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Czech gardeners helped protect an endangered flower from extinction using their backyards. The simple trick could aid plant conservation worldwide.
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Botany One interviews Dr. Itumeleng Moroenyane, a passionate scientist interesting in the intricate relationships between plants and the organisms that surround them.