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Small crimes matter
A tiny lily has been saved from the brink of extinction, but sadly not from humans.
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Find scientific papers the easy way
Not all scientific papers are easily accessed. If you want to blog about an AoB PLANTS paper, they’re all Open Access and Annals of Botany
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An update on grass-free lawns
We blogged earlier this year about Lionel Smith’s project developing grass-free lawns. He’s uploaded a long video revisiting one of his lawns a
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Altmetrics beyond the numbers
There’s an interesting post up on Gaming Altmetrics at altmetric.com. We’re looking seriously at improving how our papers are presented for altmetric services
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Los Angeles once again threatened by the prospect of fresh fruit and vegetables
In a consumer society, food production is a radical act. It’s news again, as Los Angeles City Hall is renewing its campaign against gardeners while legislation permitting urban gardening is being held up. Hat-tip to The Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog.
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Discovering the Victoria Regia water lily
Tatiana Holway, author of The Flower of Empire, discusses how explorer Robert Shomburgk and his crew discovered the Victoria Regia water lily in Guyana.
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Snow in the botanic gardens
Since every newspaper in the UK is featuring pages of pictures of the snow, I thought I would add some from the Botanic Gardens of the
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For He’s A Jolly Good (Senior) Fellow
When I started my PhD I thought about research. In the UK there are no lectures for PhD students, it’s purely about the thesis. It
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Social media and Google Analytics – who’s interested in botany?
We’re coming round to our annual assessment here at AoBBlog. Spurred by JSTOR Plants and their blog post on Social Media we’re sharing our
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Food Crisis in 2050?
A realistic scenario, if the production of major crops does not increase significantly. Estimated 9 billion people will need 70% more food than today. In June
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Plants, Pollination and Paywalls
We put The natural history of pollination and mating in bird-pollinated Babiana (Iridaceae) live on the Annals of Botany site this week. It’s been
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Botanists and plants solving the problems of the world at #IBC18
The programme at #IBC18 shows how botanical science has moved forward at an unprecedented rate since IBC17 in 2005. Not only has the science advanced, but