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via Nico Lumma
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Vanda Miss Joaquim
A.J. Cann: I posted here recently about my orchid addiction, and Vanda is one of my favourite genera, so it was fascinating to read the
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Botanical Word of the Day
Tony Foster who writes the Phytography blog has a nice idea going – botanical word of the day, building into an online glossary of botanical terms. If we weren’t such honest people here at AoB we’d be tempted to steal it 😉 Tweet
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Pathway of maize pollen tubes
Processes regulating pollen germination, growth, guidance and sperm delivery are considered major hybridization controls in nature and contribute to reproductive success as well as to isolation
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Hot Bot…
Botany is officially ‘hot’ (or even ‘really cool’…), according to no less a publication than the FT (Financial Times) Magazine, where Clive Cookson lists ‘plants to
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Proteins, pollen tube growth and guidance
Pollination is a vital step for successful fertilization and seed formation in the angiosperms. Chae and Lord outline the crucial roles of small, secreted proteins in
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Plants: where to draw the line? (or, ICBN rules, OK!?)
For years we can be happy using a word and thinking we know what it means, and presuming that everybody else also understands it in the
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S-RNase-based self-incompatibility in Petunia
S-RNase-based self-incompatibility in Petunia In Solanaceae-type self-incompatibility, the specificity of self/non-self interactions between pollen and pistil is controlled by
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PlantingScience.org
PlantingScience is a learning and research resource, bringing together students, plant scientists, and teachers from across the nation. Students engage in hands-on plant investigations, working with peers and scientist mentors to build collaborations and to improve their understanding of science.
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Inspirational plants
Wikimedia Commons. Plants supply us – and other organisms – with many solid resources, e.g. food, medicines, shelter, drinks. Something that is more intangible – but no less
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…this month’s most tenuous plant link?
Warning for the zoophobic: this item is about Caenorhabditis elegans – a free-living, transparent nematode {‘roundworm’ –sometimes known as ‘the Arabidopsis of animal biology’ [that’s
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Bigging up botany
Scott Bauer, USDA ARS. It being such a rare TV event these days, I have to ensure that everybody is aware of the recent series on