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How to grow plants 400km above the ground
Quora is a site for posting questions to the internet. Sometimes those questions get answer. For example Robert Frost, who has trained astronauts for the International
Plants & People
Increase the Impact of Your Research Paper in One Step
Annals of Botany had an editorial meeting recently one of the topics that came up was how can authors increase the readership of their paper? One
Plant Cuttings
Colourfully cunning cryptoflorigraphic conundrum
Stephen Bax has now claimed to have begun to decipher the Voynich manuscript and suggests it is probably a treatise on nature.
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The Art of Urban Botany
A few links have come in through the feeds today on urban botany. It could be interesting if you can’t get away for a holiday.
annals-of-botany
Heterodichogamy and thrips-pollination in Platycarya strobilacea
Platycarya strobilacea (Juglandaceae) is heterodichogamous – based on observations of inflorescence architecture, sexual expression and pollination biology.
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Summer* Reading
*Or winter reading for our followers in the better hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, the summer break is upon us. If you’re looking for some
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So what ARE the 7 most important plants?
A while back Annals Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison was asking what ten plants should botanists know about. I’ve taken it a bit further with a
annals-of-botany
Clonal growth in the absence of a mating morph
Haddadchi et al. study differences between a monomorphic population of Nymphoides montana and polymorphic populations.
Plant Cuttings
An explosive mix: C4, C3, C2 and CCM
How many more variants exist amongst the 325,000 species of flowering plants (let alone all the algae and other members of the plant kingdom)?
annals-of-botany
Limited plasticity in functional root traits of maple and oak
Traits affecting the form and function of fine roots in woody plants show complex phenotypic variation. Lee et al. manipulate root segments of 2-year-old
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Understanding and forecasting the response of plants to climate change
Response of the fern Asplenium fontanum to environmental change since the last ice-age.
annals-of-botany
Different responses of ephemerals and annuals to nitrogen
Biomass allocation patterns are important to ecosystem carbon cycles, and differ among species and in response to nutrient availability. Zhou et al. examine responses of ephemeral