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Bad news via the Botanical Society of America [fullclear]…but what is it that makes a garden a botanic garden? Botanic gardens were originally set up to classify plants for science. Is the presence of name labels enough or do you need people doing botany to make a place a botanic garden?
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Over-expressing Ta-PHR1-A1 increases wheat yield by increasing grain number per spike, making it potentially valuable in breeding programs.
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Plants most often live side-by-side with other plants. Neighbours compete locally with one another for light, water and soil nutrients. An individual plant may
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A study of globular succulents at biodiversity hotspots in Mexico and South Africa highlights more climate differences than similarities between hotspots.
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Keep following Annals of Botany for all the latest news about plants. We just made a minor change to this blog to give the authors whose
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A trade-off occurs between radial growth and survival from foliage herbivory in Tamarix.
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”, or so said Friedrich Nietzche, but is that really the case? This month in Annals of Botany
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months Clifford Stoll Clifford Stoll Handling
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Imagine you’re a young and eager pollen. You’re eager for a hot date with an ovule, but first you have to get to her
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I’ve been catching up with blog posts from Botany 2013. The Phytophactor has several posts on the subject, starting with Botanical Meetings – New Orleans. There’
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You know what a lawn is, it’s a patch of grass mowed to be short. But it doesn’t have to be.
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Having just released the 2013 Google Scholar metrics, it’s good to see that Annals of Botany makes it into the top 10.