The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany September 8, 2025
This week, a loss of immunity, a gain of parasites and untold stories of plant evolution.
The Week in Botany
This week, a loss of immunity, a gain of parasites and untold stories of plant evolution.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, why Taylor Swift might be good for plants and why Northern Irish rock group Ash might not be.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, urban biodiversity, logging into the Wood Wide Web, and an email bug.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, Liedson Carneiro on networking, gunfire doesn’t stop Botany, how dinosaurs got along with each other, and more.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, Juliane Ishida on her work with parasitic plants, how poor timing can spur flower evolution and a carnivorous plant that will you have your hand off, if you have tiny hands.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week we have a plant that’s gone its own way, how you can know a tree as an individual and Duarte Figueiredo on the hidden complexity of plant biology.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week we have a project to spotlight women’s role in botany, an interview with Ana Bedoya and her work on aquatic plants, and why flowers are about more than pollinators.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week we have gossip from the rhizosphere, why eating melons takes a lot of aardvark, a plant that caters to different pollinators at different times, and more.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, there’s a lot of heat with tropical plants, dead plants that lived in cooler climates and a sweet way for plants to sense heat.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, nectar with colour, plants with none, how small differences foster biodiversity and small gardens that bring us together.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week: Rocío Deanna on the importance of staying curious, the switch to agriculture in the Andes was neither fast nor furious, how caterpillars can be so injurious, and more…
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, extreme weather in the Amazon, extreme control of agriculture, David Alors on the challenges of expeditions, and more…
Alun Salt ·