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Ramiro Aguilar: “Plants Are the Most Incredible Organisms”
Botany One interviews Dr. Ramiro Aguilar, who was sponsored by Annals of Botany to speak at ATBC 2025.
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Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona: Untold Stories of Plant Evolution
Botany One interviews Dr. Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona, a speaker at the “Evolutionary History of the Gnetales” symposium held during Botany 2025.
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Dmitry Sokoloff: “Be Fascinated by Plant Diversity”
Botany One interviews Dr. Dmitry Sokoloff, a speaker at the “Evolutionary History of the Gnetales” symposium held during Botany 2025.
Close Encounters
Unveiling Herbivorous Dinosaur Diets Through Calcium Clues
By analysing calcium isotopes in dinosaur teeth, researchers have revealed the feeding habits of Jurassic herbivores, shedding light on how they coexisted.
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Liedson Carneiro: From Flowers to Networks
Botany One interviews Dr Liedson Carneiro, a pollination ecologist fascinated by plant–pollinator interactions and how these relationships sustain ecosystem function.
Close Encounters
When Pollinators and Flowers Have Timing Issues
Some plants don’t flower at the same time as their pollinators are most active, and this mismatch can actually help keep a wide variety of flower shapes and sizes in nature by changing which traits are most useful at different times.
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No need to put a ring on it
Digital images of herbarium specimens can be used to non-destructively measure woody plant growth and assess response to climate change in the Arctic.
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Juliane K. Ishida: From Grandmother’s Garden to the Frontiers of Parasitic Plants
Botany One interviews Dr. Juliane Ishida who has gone miles —literally — to undercover the mysteries of parasitic plants.
Ecosystems
Cryptanthus bahianus: The Flower That Defies Its Genus
The exception that proves the rule: Cryptanthus bahianus takes the sweet route, not the aromatic one
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Duarte Figueiredo: Uncovering How Seeds Begin
Botany One interviews Dr Duarte Figueiredo, a Portuguese Developmental Biologist interested in the formation of seeds.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
The Chemical Lives of Trees: Why No Two Are Exactly Alike
Individual trees carry their own chemical signatures and they may be rewriting the rules of how ecosystems work.
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Ana Bedoya: Exploring the Evolutionary Journey of Aquatic Plants
Botany One interviews Dr. Ana Bedoya, a Colombian botanist fascinated with the systematics of aquatic plants.