Plants & People
ASPB unveils another new teaching tool
Now you can learn about a century of research into flowering time.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Image library of plant tissues
Looking for pictures of plant anatomies? Check it the rich image library of plant pictures from the Berkshire Community College.
annals-of-botany
To make a fine wine, you need to kill some dinosaurs
The event that killed off the dinosaurs had a huge impact on the Vitaceae family, the plant family that includes the wine grape.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Attracting bees is not always a smooth process for plants
Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
An emerging field in Plant Science: Plant Synthetic Biology takes the stage in Barcelona
Michela Osnato talks to Dr. Jae-Seong Yang and Dr. Ivan Reyna-Llorens about their recent Plant Synthetic Biology conference in Barcelona.
Growth & Development
The future of sweet corn turns sour
Heat during flowering damages the kernels before they develop.
Close Encounters
In Madagascar, the lemurs need the trees, and the trees need the lemurs
Hikori Sato explains why a living forest isn’t just a collection of trees.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Learn how to look at Lichen
April Windle presents The Wonderful World of Lichens: Introduction to Saving Devon’s Treescapes
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Plants remember how much warmer than usual it was last year
Stress memories using epigenetics are helping plants adapt to climate change.
Growth & Development
When you don’t kill weeds you teach them how to survive
It’s not your imagination, some plants are prepared for your hoe when you try to eradicate them from your garden.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
How does it feel?
Plants might not feel pain as such, but they need a way to get damage signals around their body. A new study uncovers some of the process.
Reviews
Sowing the seeds of future food security
“It’s easy to see how The Age of Seeds could be an award-winning book.”