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.
Growth & Development
High-speed cameras capture squirting cucumbers shooting seeds at 29 mph across 12-meter distances using perfectly angled, pressurised fruit explosions.
Plants & People
The Emperor Caligula wasn’t just interested in plants as poisons, he also knew of their healing properties. It seems that he just preferred the poison side of pharmacology.
Ecosystems
From bat visits at dusk to hummingbird sips at dawn, this plant’s clever pollination strategy reveals the power of flexibility in nature.
The Week in Botany
This week, there’s a lot of heat with tropical plants, dead plants that lived in cooler climates and a sweet way for plants to sense heat.
Plants & People
Wikidata is a global, open database that can help connect botanical data, such as species, collectors, and collections, and anyone in the botanical community can help improve it.
Ecosystems
Scientists analysing 2,000 herbarium specimens discovered jewelflowers survive new climates not by evolving, but by engineering their own familiar microenvironments
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Botany One interviews Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, a plant evolutionary biologist that once she fell in love with tropical plants, she never looked back.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
The sweet molecules plants make during photosynthesis double as sophisticated thermometers, revealing a hidden layer of plant environmental sensing.
The Week in Botany
This week, nectar with colour, plants with none, how small differences foster biodiversity and small gardens that bring us together.