featured
Saluting those who suffer for science
What is the most important part of a scientific paper? Arguably, it’s the Results section– although there are those who might propose that it’s
featured
Little dragons with a sweet tooth pollinate the mysterious “Hidden Flower”
High up in the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site in South Africa, and unexpected visitor is changing ideas of what animals can be pollinators.
featured
Succulents will be winners and losers in a hotter climate
How well do we know succulent plants? According to a new paper by Dr Olwen Grace of Kew Gardens, not as well as we should.
featured
Presenting a poster at a conference?
Worry no more. Mike Morrison has got your academic poster design.
AoB PLANTS
Evidence for a double mutualistic interaction between a lizard and a Mediterranean gymnosperm
Mutualistic relationships between different species are common in all ecosystems however double mutualisms, where two interacting species benefit each other for two different functions, e.g.
featured
Top-up, and bottom-down effects of marine plankton
Members of the plankton are so-called because they don’t have the ability to move against modest currents in the water bodies they inhabit, i.
featured
Microplastics could pose a threat to plants
There’s been plenty of media attention on the threat plastics, especially microplastics, pose to animal life. A paper in New Phytologist suggests that there’s
featured
Houseplants as human health monitors
Plants provide humans with many products and services that are not only important but essential to our existence. We don’t have space to catalogue all
featured
Sex on Fire and Vachellia caven
In Central Argentina grows a tree which can produce flowers with different sexual characteristics? Why? Is there an advantage to changing your sex life if you’re a plant?
featured
Do the small things to make a big difference
Across Europe, students and young people are taking a stance on climate change and demanding action. From Belgium to Germany, youth-led climate protests are becoming
featured
Can Early Career Researchers write reviews? The case of Zinc.
Philip White talks to Martin Broadley about how they wrote some highly-cited reviews as Early Career Researchers.
featured
Tanks, Zika and ornamental plants
The plant group known as bromeliads famously includes the commercially important pineapple. However, that ground-growing member of the Bromeliaceae (the more formal name for the