Plants & People

To celebrate the “International Day of Girls and Women in Science”, Botany One highlights six exceptional female researchers who greatly contributed to shed new light on Plant Photobiology – a scientific discipline that studies the effects of light on biological processes in green organisms.

Pumpkins, the hallmark of the most terrifying night of the year, are not the only botanical species that give rise to dreadful feelings. Let’s discover some creepy, freaky, greedy plants that seem spawned from horror stories.

After the summer break, the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics celebrated the 66th edition of its annual congress in sunny Bari, a beautiful city located in the heel of Italy’s boot. Want to know more about “Climate-smart plants to feed the future”? Don’t miss this post-conference blog post.

Until recently, archaeologists had only a few clues about the importance of agaves to Southwest US and northern Mexico. But new research has revealed a hidden history of agave domestication in this region.

The Sierra San Pedro Mártir’s pine forests thrive on the fires that recycle nutrients, but fire suppression threatens this unique Mexican ecosystem.

Does the word ‘new’ add anything to the title of a botanical paper?

ChatGPT may know a lot, but when it comes to botany basics, this AI still has a lot to learn according to researchers who gave it a “plant awareness” quiz.