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Floral and vegetative cues for pollination in Lysimachia
Plants pollinated by the same guild of pollinators often converge in their floral phenotype as a result of pollinator-mediated selection. However, Schäffler et al. also
Plant Cuttings
Botany? It’s all about app-lication…
Nowadays, it seems that anybody with a ‘smartphone’ can be a plant biologist. Well, not quite – it takes years of dedicated study, etc to be able
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Functional traits and plant invasions (Invited Review)
Global environmental change will affect non-native plant invasions, with profound potential impacts on native plant populations, communities and ecosystems. In this context, Drenovsky et al.
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Sex inequality in science: skirting around the issue?
Recognising the under-representation of women in the science arena (including botany, which is a science – see David Chamovitz’s Daily Plant blog on this point)
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Medieval emergence of sweet melons
Sweet melons, Cucumis melo, are highly prized today; however, the lack of enthusiasm for melons in Mediterranean antiquity indicates that they did not possess the sugary
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Rejoice, ‘tis the real Bloom’s Day (to be sure…)
June 16th is the date upon which certain individuals around the world celebrate Irish writer James Joyce’s 1904-set literary classic Ulysses. Termed Bloom’s
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Climate warming shifts the timing of seed germination
Despite the considerable number of studies on the impacts of climate change on alpine plants, there have been few attempts to investigate its effect on regeneration.
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An Australian origin for Drosera meristocaulis
The carnivorous sundew Drosera meristocaulis, which is endemic to a remote high-summit area of the Amazon region, has been shown to share morphological characters with
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Suck on this: predictions and patience in phytobiology
One of the great strengths of the scientific method is its ability to make predictions that can be tested. One of the most famous of those
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Leaf display by conifer and angiosperm seedlings
The contemporary relegation of conifers mainly to cold or infertile sites has been ascribed to low competitive ability. Lusk et al. use 3-D modelling of
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Bigging-up the AoB Blog [or, Cann can – and does!]
The communication of science (and particularly discussion thereof and thereon, which often takes the form of post-publication review) has many opportunities in this electronic age.
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Modelling dry mass partitioning in diseased wheat
Biotrophic fungi divert assimilates for their growth and thus compete with their host for carbon allocation. Bancal et al. modulate competition by shading the flag leaf