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Plant Records: An ever increasing pot of gold
Name: Maize or Corn Scientific name: Zea mays Known for: Food of the Gods (or Blasphemy against them when in Corn Dogs) Record broken: Yields I
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Plant Records: Don’t judge ryegrass by its looks
Name: Perennial ryegrass Scientific name: Lolium perenne L. Known for: Being a super yummy forage grass for grazing ruminants and liked as turf for sports people
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Plant Records: The Plant that Fooled Millions
Name: Baniwi (Banana Kiwi) plant Scientific name: N/A Known for: Fooling millions and millions of people Record broken: Going viral on the internet At AoBBlog,
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Plant Records: The (Almost) Invisible Giant
Name: Tiama African Mahogany Scientific name: Entandrophragma excelsum Known for: Being freakishly good at hiding despite its size Record broken: Height There was a surprising article
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Cryopreservation on the farm and in the news
Almost all the milk we drink will come from cows whose father’s sperm was frozen. It is quite likely that their father himself was an
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4 Reasons Sunflowers Face The Sun
There’s been advances in knowing how sunflowers track the sun, but botanists are still arguing over why. And, to make things confusing, they could all be right.
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Why be nice, when you can cheat your way to success?
The Disa orchids are a puzzle. Why do only some of them give a reward? What is it about deceitful pollination that works better for some plants?
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Why do leaves change colour?
We know a lot about the chemical processes of changing leaf colour, but scientists are still debating why it happens.
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What do YOU think is the best of botanical blogging?
Every so often someone will complain that social media in science is a waste of time, and that there’s no scientific benefit to blogging. We
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How do you wake a sleeping seed?
You can’t just plant a seed and expect it to grow. Chahtane et al. have recently published a review in the Journal of Experimental Botany
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Risk, reward and hazard
I had started writing about risk assessment for AoBBlog a few weeks ago, but only this week I’ve met a critical risk assessment in practice.
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What does it take to run a botanical society?
What does it take to run a botanical society? We asked Shamma Rattan, president of the Oxford Brookes Botanical Society and the committee (Preena Patel, vice