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Galleria Carnivora
Jeff Karron (AoB’s “pollen Editor”) recently tipped me off about Galleria Carnivora, a museum of colour photographs of carnivorous plants. There are lots of images
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What does ethnobotany mean to you?
I’m probably not alone in associating ethnobotany with tales of derring-do, usually involving arduous treks through unbearably hot, mosquito-infested, disease-ridden, swamps or
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I want to be… a tree!
In trying to encourage my students to consider the structure–function issues in being a land plant, I often joke that all plants really want to
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Aquatic plant adaptive strategies
Hydrophytes exhibit a wide range of growth forms, denoting variability in adaptive strategies. Pierce et al. measure morpho-functional leaf traits for 61 species from 47
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My favourite colour is structural colour
What do peacocks, CDs and certain plants have in common? They all have multi-coloured parts – feathers, surfaces or petals – which change their hue depending on
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Multiple origins of Nothoscordum gracile
Nothoscordum gracile is an apomitic tetraploid with a rare karyotype with 2n = 19 and is widely distributed throughout the Americas. It has been suggested to form
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Every day is Dewsday in the forest…
The dew point is ‘the temperature to which a volume of humid air must be cooled… for water vapor to condense into liquid water’, and is
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Hemicellulose evolution in monilophytes (Research in Context)
The Equisetopsida emerged in the Upper Devonian (>370 mya), and Equisetum (horsetails) may be the oldest surviving vascular plant genus. Horsetails and the Poales are
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Annals of Botany’s impact factor just increased to 4.03. If I listen carefully, I can hear the thousands of people who read this blog
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Functional Structural Plant Modelling to return to Finland
Plants have always attracted human interest as evolving structures, Leonardo da Vinci’s studies on trees as an early example. Today not only intellectual curiosity but
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Tree Physiology: Carbon allocation special issue
Carbon allocation, the process by which plants invest carbon into stored reserves and structures such as new leaves, stem tissue and roots, has implications for topics
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Bryophytes and the evolution of early land plants (Review)
Land plants arose from a common ancestor at least 470 million years ago and presently encompass four major lineages: liverworts, mosses, hornworts and tracheophytes. By integrating