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Using Plant and Crop Extracts to Enhance Rural Household Food Security
Various plants, crops and extracts have been used over several generations to contribute to household food and nutrition security in semi-arid areas (Khan, et al.
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Snacking helps Drosera’s appetite
A paper by Pavlovič et al. has caught my eye this week. Feeding on prey increases photosynthetic efficiency in the carnivorous sundew Drosera capensis has moved
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Effect of light on anatomical and biochemical aspects of hybrid larch embryos
In larch embryos, light has a negative effect on protein accumulation, but a positive effect on phenol accumulation.
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Growth responses of the mangrove Avicennia marina to salinity
Avicennia marina is an obligate halophyte, requiring saline conditions for development.
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Phylogenetic relationships in Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae), one of the great flowering plant radiations
The largest subfamily of orchids represents one of the most significant diversifications among flowering plants.
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Diversity, distribution and roles of osmoprotective compounds accumulated in halophytes under abiotic stress
This review discusses the diversity of osmolytes among halophytes.
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The most efficient trap isn’t always the most deadly trap
Pitchers plants are carnivorous. They catch small animals, usually insects to gain nutrients like Nitrogen. You’d expect that they’d evolve their traps to be
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One hundred and twenty-five years of the Annals of Botany
By August 2012, the Annals of Botany had been published without a break for 125 years.
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Allometric partitioning and the relationship between above- and below-ground plant biomass
Plant size is the primary driver of the biomass allocation pattern for understorey plants in sub-tropical forests.
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Climate change and germination response
Climate change will disrupt the many interactions between biology and climate, including seed germination.
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Deadly competition between parasites
There’s an interesting paper out in Nature Communications: Coinfection alters population dynamics of infectious disease. The paper is the study of Plantago lanceolata a common
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How do you make someone excited about #Botany – Dr M?
Dr M has taken his brand of eXtreme botany to the Association of Science Education Conference.