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Ecologists broadly accept that the number of species present within a region balances regional processes of immigration and speciation against competitive and other interactions between populations
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Thanks to JSTOR Global Plants for pointing to an interesting paper in Functional Ecology, Shape matters: corolla curvature improves nectar discovery in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta.
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My phone died, so I’m catching up with podcasts. One I listen to is by the people behind QI, No Such Thing As A Fish.
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The Annals of Botany has been put under the microscope, along with a few other journals in a study that aims to find out what is
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The Botanical Society of America meeting will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada July 25-29, 2015. This year Dr Robert Raguso of Cornell University will
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Improved knowledge of halophytes is important in understanding our natural world and enabling the use of these fascinating plants in land re-vegetation.
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An interesting paper has moved into free access in Annals of Botany: Caught in the act: pollination of sexually deceptive trap-flowers by fungus gnats in
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Expression and live-cell imaging of functional versions of the A. lyrata SRKb variant in A. thaliana stigma epidermal cells.
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I’m delighted that there’s a review of Auxin in this month’s American Journal of Botany, Auxin activity: Past, present, and future by Enders
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I’ve been reading with interest about Hieroglyph, the first anthology of science fiction stories from Project Hieroglyph based at ASU. The idea is that inspirational
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The special issue on pollinator-driven speciation is available with free access now. We covered a few of the papers last year, but now they’re
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I was driving to a wedding on Saturday, when bananas came up as a topic on the Rhod Gilbert show. The question came up, would putting