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There’s a paper published through Open Access this month that highlights the benefits of diversity in growing crops, but with a new angle. Diversity as
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We’ve been experimenting with what we can do with articles, and our latest experiment happened earlier this week. 7 Deadly Secrets of Carnivorous Plants is
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in adaptation of plants to many stresses including low nitrogen availability.
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The activity of LTR retrotransposons has been a very significant driver of genome evolution since the divergence of the peanut A and B genomes.
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When it comes to carnivorous plants it’s Venus Flytraps that get the most attention, with their snapping jaws. Bladderworts have stunningly fast traps. Sundews glisten
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Conservation of the unique biodiversity of mountain ecosystems needs trans-disciplinary approaches to succeed in a crowded world.
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Gynodioecy (coexistence of females and hermaphrodites) occurs in numerous flowering plants, so understanding its maintenance has wide importance.
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There were a couple of stories in the Atlantic a few months ago on the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata. The tree used to be abundant across
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Normally when someone asks a dramatic question in a headline the answer is no. This time though it’s different. A paper in the new open-
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The What a Plant Knows MOOC comes as a refreshing change.
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Angiosperms, the flowering plants, are the astonishingly diverse. But what drives the selection pressures to create this diversity? One explanation is the Grant-Stebbins model. This
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The importance of the combined effect of geomorphological and climatic factors in shaping plant species distribution.