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Realizing Crops in silico
How to link heterogeneous models, build a community, and acquire necessary data in the Wild West of Plant Biology research.
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Reflections on “Chlorophyll fluorescence – a practical guide”
Philip White talks to Giles Johnson and finds out that what some people call a waste of time, other people call a citation classic.
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Making soy better
Avid readers of the Botany One blog will no doubt be aware of The Story of Soy. Written by Christine du Bois it makes the compelling
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Can a tomato hear, and what would it listen to?
Over Christmas, a couple of papers came out that suggest plants can respond to airborne sound waves. The findings challenge many ideas about how plants respond to sound.
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Bread’s birth bested by 4400 years
Like many of you reading this item I suspect, I was taught that agriculture was ‘invented’ about 10,000 years ago in the so-called Fertile
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Mosses monitor polystyrene plastic pollution
Discarded plastic* is a major source of this planet’s pollution (“the action or process of making land, water, air, etc., dirty and not safe or
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Wassailing to wake the trees
January 17 marks twelfth night in the Julian Calendar. It also marks the traditional night of wassailing, a ritual to drive evil spirits from the orchard.
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Using genome diversity for the environment, livelihoods and tropical grasslands
Pat Heslop-Harrison (with collaborators listed below) examines why it’s not just humans that need better crops.
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For the Pineapple Lily, attraction is a matter of chemistry
Eucomis regia, the pineapple lily, doesn’t attract insects or birds to pollinate it. So how does it reproduce?
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A small dose of plant science and Focus with Forest.app
Plants on Earth being productive at some point in their life cycles is critical for their – and our lives. Productivity is also a common new year’
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When did the first flowers open?
Finding out when the earliest ancestor of the flowering plants evolved has been difficult. Estimates have been wildly different, depending on the method you use.
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The act of drawing can teach more about Botanical morphology than writing
A study comparing descriptive writing with botanical drawing has found that both methods aid learning about taxonomy. However, drawing subjects captured more morphological information.