Plants & People
Now is the time start a nature diary
You can help nature by making a little time for yourself.
Plants & People
Sketch by Goethe may be first depiction of intraspecific trait variation
Though the phenomenon was known in Goethe’s time, research didn’t start in earnest for another century.
Plants & People
Larch, still Number 1!*
If a tree falls in a forest, can it still insulate people from sound pollution?
Plants & People
Scientific study shows you can garden your way to health
The act of gardening is one of the key correlates with wellbeing, a survey finds.
Plants & People
in silico Plants now listed on Directory of Open Access Journals
Listing in Directory of Open Access Journals verifies isP’s high level of openness and adherence to best practice and also increases your article’s discoverability.
Plants & People
Plants to dye for…
We are told that the future’s bright, the future’s orange. If true, that’s rather monochrome, and drab, and sad. So, what better time
Plants & People
The scented story of rice
A guest post by Debarati Chakraborty The power of aroma compounds to offer physical, mental and spiritual delight is one of the oldest enchanting tales. Aroma
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Aluminium-silicon interactions in higher plants: a brief personal history
How aluminium, silicon and two researchers are connected.
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Every little helps…
Each year International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March. This year’s theme is “collective individualism – how our individual actions, conversations, behaviours and mind-
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Gene copy number is associated with phytochemistry in Cannabis sativa
THCA and CBDA were thought to have a simple mode of inheritance; however, a recent study by Vergara et al. describes that in fact multiple gene copies are involved in their production.
Plants & People
What real people think about plants
Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants by Roy Vickery, 2019. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. For the
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Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?
It is well-known that people are better at identifying animals than plants and this relative inability of people to identify plants is increasingly termed “plant