Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
The Birth of John Chapman.
Close Encounters
Building Nature-Friendly Neighbourhoods
A US study compares residential developments, showing how replacing turfgrass with native plants triples insect diversity and conserves water.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Plants Protect Chloroplasts by Slathering Them in Sunscreen
Understanding how plants make this sunscreen could lead to more resilient, higher yielding crops
Meeting Plant Scientists
Sreetama Bhadra: "Once You Stop Really Seeing Something, You Stop Asking What It Is Doing"
Botany One interviews Dr Sreetama Bhadra, an evolutionary biologist fascinated by how plants duplicate, rearrange and reshape their genomes as they adapt and diversify.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany September 21, 2026
This week: Pollinators in the City, Seeds in the Bank, and Speed Dating in the Soil.
Plant of the Week
*Phytolacca americana*: Pokeweed
The poisonous, edible, plant
Science Shared
Science Shared: September 19
This week: Photobiology, clonal reproduction and fossilised fruits.
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
Plants tracked the final hours of an enigmatic man's life.
Close Encounters
An Unusual Plant and Its Even More Unusual Dispersers
Land hermit crabs and cockroaches may help disperse the seeds of Balanophora fungosa, adding another surprising twist to the unusual ecology of these parasitic plants.
Close Encounters
Plant-Microbe Speed Dating Paves The Way For Sustainable Agriculture
Researchers have teamed up with Belgian citizens to conduct a mass match-making experiment between cold-tolerant soybeans and rhizobia.
Meeting Plant Scientists
Julien L. Bota: Uncovering the Hidden Relationships That Shape Plant Communities
Botany One interviews Julien L. Bota, a plant and landscape ecologist fascinated by the surprising relationships connecting plants with animals, microbes and their environments.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Seeds in storage aren't quite the same as seeds in the wild
Seeds kept in storage for years turned out different from fresh ones taken from the same wild populations, showing why seed backups are so useful.