Seven thousand botanists have never come together in one place before. But we are all meeting at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, #IBC2017, this week, in a stunning display of not only the diversity of plants but the diversity of researchers and research. With 27 (yes, twenty-seven) parallel sessions most of the time, each […]

Six years after IBC18 in Melbourne comes the International Botanical Congress in Shenzen. Yet it might be quieter on social media than the 2011 conference. We have made plans.

It’s conference season, and we’re starting to visit conferences from the blog. Friday was the JD Hooker Bicentennial Meeting at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. https://youtu.be/6Mga1xDEHhE We have a soft spot for JD Hooker as he’s responsible for the name Annals of Botany, or at least part of it. The original proposed title for […]

Centers of endemism have long been of interest to biogeographers, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists, and more recently to conservation biologists, who often recognize them as biodiversity hotspots and priorities for protection. The evolutionary and ecological processes responsible for producing concentrations of narrow-range species are complex and may include many interacting aspects of climatic, geologic, and […]

The Botanical Society of America meeting will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada July 25-29, 2015. This year Dr Robert Raguso of Cornell University will be delivering the Annals of Botany Lecture. The “invisible hand” of floral scent in plant-pollinator interactions Flowers are not merely objects of aesthetic beauty – they serve as engines of […]

In larch embryos, light has a negative effect on protein accumulation, but a positive effect on phenol accumulation.

Avicennia marina is an obligate halophyte, requiring saline conditions for development.

The largest subfamily of orchids represents one of the most significant diversifications among flowering plants.

This review discusses the diversity of osmolytes among halophytes.

By August 2012, the Annals of Botany had been published without a break for 125 years.

Plant size is the primary driver of the biomass allocation pattern for understorey plants in sub-tropical forests.

Climate change will disrupt the many interactions between biology and climate, including seed germination.