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AoB PLANTS at ESA
AoB PLANTS will have an exhibit booth at the forthcoming meeting of the Ecological Society of America, during the week of August 5–9 in Minneapolis,
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Is Drosera meristocaulis the carnivorous plant that walked?
In the classic novel The Day of the Triffids carnivorous plants hunted a blinded human population. Drosera meristocaulis cannot walk, but that makes it even more
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I feckin love the Dead Zoo
The public perception of plants as second rate science is not a new phenomenon.
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Explore Urban Forest with Earthwatch
I’ve been looking at a few Earthwatch expeditions. They look interesting but the cost for most of them is prohibitive. However, if you live near
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For the anti-social media user in your life
If you ever want to justify your Facebook habit then you can now cite Osterrieder 2013 thanks to the paper The value and use of social
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How embargoes happen
I’m working on a press release for a paper. I think it could be big news – and if it’s not then it could well
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The scientific origins of the Dictator/Sitcom Character game
There’s a game where your computer will attempt to guess what dictator or sitcom character you’re thinking of. It’s based on a binary
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The organic battery gets closer to reality
The Indian Botanists have news of a new publication on using rice to make lithium batteries. I thought I’d read this before, but what I’
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When the going gets tough….. the organelles get going
Chloroplasts, the tiny photosynthetic energy factories of plant cells, were observed to move in response to light and temperature as long as a century ago. Within
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Taking the Myc: evolution of the legume-rhizobia symbiosis
The legume family of plants can form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria known as rhizobia. In return for a supply of nitrogen compounds the plant
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Farewell to all our readers…
Our project with AoB Blog, in relation with our training in a new form of scientific journalism is now ending. We want to thank all the
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Flowering around the Med
The latest in a series of two-yearly workshops on Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Flower Development was held this June on the Giens Peninsula of the French