Cells, Genes & Molecules
The genetic prison that traps a ghost plant
Why would you make leaves that are all cost and no benefit? A ghost plant puzzle is solved.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
A Pathway to Salt-Tolerant Crops in a Changing Climate
A new metabolic model identifies the genetic basis of salt stress resilience in plants.
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Karolina Heyduk: A Career Shaped by Desert Plants and Midnight Photosynthesis
Botany One interviews Dr Karolina Heyduk, a plant evolutionary biologist interested in the origins a unique type of photosynthesis.
Ecosystems
How Golf Courses Are Helping to Save the Primrose
Well-managed golf courses are helping save endangered primrose flowers, allowing them grow in number and stay genetically healthy as farms become less friendly to wildflowers.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany June 9, 2025
This week, the importance of passion in plant science, mass extinctions that aren’t, the surprising complexity of your garden and more…
Ecosystems
The hidden complexity of pollinator networks in gardens
What might appear to be one network of plants and pollinators may in fact be many.
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Gehan Jayasuriya: “Pursue Plant Science with Passion and Dedication”
Botany One interviews Dr Gehan Jayasuriya, one of the pioneers of seed ecology in Sri Lanka.
Ecosystems
Is it time to kill the “Mass Extinction” concept?
A story popular in New Scientist at the moment questions what we know of the deep past, and it has a plant twist.
News in Brief
How Heliamphora turns a first date into a last meal
Researchers at Colorado State University have found the genetic basis of attraction – if you’re a carnivorous plant seeking prey.
Ecosystems
The search for gold risks losing treasure
Amazon gold mining leaves forests unable to heal for centuries, because miners carelessly turn the landscape into a giant sieve.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany June 2, 2025
The plant whose drinking habit fooled botanists for decades, chaos inside orderly cells, and more…
News in Brief
The Swindle That Left Tea With a Bitter Taste
How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?