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How hard is it to use plant computational models? Ask our students!
How scary are plant models? Students at Université catholique de Louvain have been finding out.
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Citation Classics in Plant Sciences since 1992
Philip White asks what are the classic papers in plant sciences, and highlights a method that allows you to produce your own lists for your field or sub-field.
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The Urban Forests Cleaning Beijing
The Chinese Tulip Tree might be thought of as purely ornamental, but new research finds it might help Beijing clean up its notorious smogs.
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ePlant: A Comprehensive Data Visualization Tool for Plant Biologists
The advent and breadth of bioinformatics resources have made scientist’s jobs easier. Before jumping into wet lab work, they are able to parse gene targets
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iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
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Plant Resources III: All the world’s trees in one place
If the POWO is not enough plant database for you [see my previous post], there is also a new database specifically for the world’s trees*
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Plant Resources II: All the world’s plants (at Kew!)
Well, not quite all. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is home to many living specimens of the world’s flora, and its collections of ‘dead
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Plant Resources I: Plant Image Bank
The power of images to convey information – especially in science communication which can often-times be quite complicated – is surely not in doubt. And that is
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Should You Tweet Posters from a Conference?
Pat raised an interesting point while he was at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. Should you tweet whole posters from a conference? I think I
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Archaeologists surprised by large maize at El Gigante
The discovery of ancient large maize corn cobs at the El Gigante rockshelter might change how we think about the earliest complex societies in Central America.
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Introducing The Week in Botany
We get complaints, and when we identify the problem we try to fix them. Sometimes it takes longer than others. We’ve had complaints about our
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Illuminating work on bean domestication
What can you do with a light 10 billion times brighter than the sun? One thing you can do is examine 4000 year old seed coatings.