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Happy Pumpkin Day to all our American Readers!
Today is a holiday (Thanksgiving) in the USA and most of our American readers will be taking a well earned day off in order to overeat
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Suggestions needed for the ten best of everything: plants for botanists
I’m writing an AoBBlog post (or maybe posts) on ten plants that all botanists should know quite a lot about. Criteria for inclusion include importance in the environment, importance to people as food or culturally, scientific interest, global nature, and evolutionary position. What are your suggesti
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Bryophyte ‘sperminator’…
Co-opting animals to help with pollination is a major event in flower (angiosperm) biology – and is very much a do-or-die act. But have
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The ecology of plant populations: their dynamics, interactions and evolution
What regulates the size and distribution of plant populations? What determines whether a population of plants will increase in size or decline? What allows some species
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Genome size variation in a polyploid complex
Whole-genome duplication, or polyploidy, is a common and repeated process in angiosperms, and contributes to variation in genome size. McIntyre assesses ploidy and genome size
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From Mighty Oaks?
To my shame, I’m not a plant scientist, which means I might be about to ask a silly question. But maybe not, so here goes.
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Collenchyma: past, present and future (Invited Review)
Collenchyma has remained in the shadow of commercially exploited mechanical tissues such as wood and fibres, and consequently has received relatively little attention since it was
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A blooming marvellous innovation
I know that this year’s British summer hasn’t been much to write home about (and you would be writing home to the UK– who
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Cytotype diversity in Sorbus in Britain
Large scale ploidy surveys using flow cytometry have become an essential tool to study plant genome dynamics and to get insights into the mechanisms and genetic
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Fungus genome figured
Sticking with fungi (Aha! The ‘Melbourne Code card’ duly played!), but a more benign side this time is this uplifting tale. In the West we are
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Microbial effects on floral nectar sugar variation
Variation in composition of floral nectar reflects the action of extrinsic factors as well as intrinsic plant characteristics. Canto and Herrera study the occurrence and density
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Breeding strategies for forage and grass improvement
The November issue of Annals of Botany features a Highlight section focussing on the often neglected area of forage, turf and bioenergy crops. The eight papers