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Is pink your favourite colour? How about gold?
Astaxanthin is nearly as expensive as gold. Unless you grow it in a pond.
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Floral structure and systematics in Malpighiales
The suprafamilial phylogenetic structure of Malpighiales, one of the largest orders of flowering plants, has been continuously improved over the past decade and the relationships of
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Farewell to all our readers…
Our project with AoB Blog, in relation with our training in a new form of scientific journalism is now ending. We want to thank all the
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Flowering around the Med
The latest in a series of two-yearly workshops on Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Flower Development was held this June on the Giens Peninsula of the French
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Focus on transfer cells
A study finds that manipulation of transfer cells may provide new opportunities for improving crop yield.
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Flowering and morphology responses to high latitudes
Timing of flowering is an adaptive trait regulated by environmental cues and has been intensively studied in annual plants, but in perennials it is currently not
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Dead End Street: Is self-fertilisation the end of the road for flowering plants?
One of the basic and most widely accepted hypotheses in plant breeding systems is that flowering plant species that embrace self-fertilisation enter an evolutionary “dead
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What questions should we be asking the public – and which public should we be asking?
Over the weekend there’s been discussion on twitter about how to enthuse people about plants. Helen Gazeley kicked it off by asking Will James Wong
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Behaviour of eversporting eudicot chimeras
Behaviour of eversporting gymnosperm chimeras indicates a single apical cell is present in the shoot apical meristem. Korn studies one Mentha (Lamiaceae), one Euonymus (Celastraceae) and
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How the internet changed science
Every year at the Society for Experimental Biology’s (SEB) annual meeting there is a special networking event: The ‘Women in Science’ dinner – which in fact
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Social media tips and tools for scientists
Should scientists use social media for work purposes? What types of content can researchers put online and how can they make it reach even further? How
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Pantropical disjunction in Paederia
Paederia is a pantropical genus of 31 species of woody lianas from the family Rubiaceae, with high species’ diversity in both tropical continental Asia and Africa