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Phenomics – technologies to relieve the phenotyping bottleneck
Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the need to breed high-yielding crops adapted to future climates and the
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The Title Says It All?
Jessica Budke recently published an interesting blog post (Is the Title of your Scientific Publication Important?) about her travails with her second published article: I just
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A gift for the anti-Botanist
With a world full of fascinating life-forms, it’s always easy to find a gift for a botanist. There’s so many plants to choose
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Being Social
The aim of the AoB blog is to “promote the science of botany”, be it the botany that is published in Annals of Botany, in AoB
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The mysteries of movement proteins
To establish a systemic infection, plant viruses invade neighboring cells via cell to cell movement trough plasmodesmata channels until they reach the vascular system. This cell
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Botany for Halloween – Witches, Brooms and Pumpkins
At the moment, I am teaching plant hormones in our course on plant cell and developmental biology (BS1003). Fortunately, hormones and development link well with Halloween
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Open Access Plant Science – Every Week of the Year
You can afford to worry about medical research once you have enough food to eat.
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Reactions of Nicotiana species to inoculation with begomoviruses
The inability of begomoviruses to systemically infect several Nicotiana species is likely due to inhibition of virus movement rather than replication and provides a novel model to study virus-host interactions in resistant/susceptible hosts.
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Food for the billions – botany has the answers #bad11
Not only do the growing billions of people in the world want to eat, but those in poorer countries want to share in the lifestyles those of us enjoy in the West. They don’t want to be wondering where the next meal for themselves and their families will be coming from; they don’t want to get ill from
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The fashionably late arrival of cucumbers in Europe #bad11
You might put together a salad from what you’ve grown in your back garden, but it’s a surprisingly cosmopolitan meal. Tomatoes came from Mesoamerica
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Miscanthus – A bioenergy crop for all seasons – Feature – BBSRC/RuSource
Via Scoop.it – AnnBot Alan Spedding, Rusource Briefing 1381: Miscanthus breeding Researchers at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at the University of
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Blog Action Day 2011: Let’s Talk About Food #bad11
Blog Action Day is an annual event that encourages bloggers to talk about a specific topic. This year the theme is Food and it seems like