Growth & Development
Sarah Mathura’s new study charts a vital path to understanding sweet potato growth and boosting its yield, potentially revolutionising food security in developing countries.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Warming temperatures and land reclamation are causing a significant increase in harmful greenhouse gas emissions from alpine meadows, intensifying the effects of climate change.
Ecosystems
Researchers have found a more eco-friendly way to tackle a plant that’s replacing forage for the wildlife of Tanzania.
Growth & Development
Scientists discover how deepwater rice thrives during floods, providing hope for a sustainable food supply in a changing climate.
News in Brief
Botanists uncover the reason for an orchid’s delicate shape, deforestation is probably worse than you thought, and a test of killing weeds without herbicide.
News in Brief
Scientists take different approaches to tackle crop pests, and a well-known plant produces a protein that inhibits tumour growth in mammals.
AoB PLANTS
The dunes of barrier islands erode during storm events but they also prevent damage to inland ecosystems. For these dunes to function in this way, vegetation
in silico Plants
A new computational tool couples a root architecture model with fast and accurate algorithms of water flow through hydraulic architectures and plant-scale parameter calculations.
in silico Plants
Parsimony and biological reality are often seen as antagonistic goals in plant modelling. Hammer and colleagues argue that isn’t always the case, and combining the two approaches could bring benefits to scientists as well as plants.
News in Brief
Male flowers of Aconitum protect their pollen by adding alkaloids. Without pollen as a reward, botanists asked how the flower compensated pollinators.
AoB PLANTS
Climate change-induced drought has already contributed to increased plant mortality around the globe, including in forest ecosystems. Drought events are projected to become even more
News in Brief
Students at Augustana University have found out how insects see carnivorous plants by building on each other’s work in a series of projects.