See on Scoop.it – AnnBot There are many examples where green infrastructure offers much better value for public investment than the alternative, for example natural water filtration and natural flood defence. Alan Spedding over at RuSource had identified and summarized an important report with the less-than-exciting title “Natural England Research Report NERR033 ‘Microeconomic Evidence for […]
There are two important pieces of ‘grey literature’ today: the first, from the Royal Society, is a report on how global population and consumption are linked, and the implications for a finite planet. There was also a useful interview on the UK radio programme “Today” about 6.45 am; since the programme is still running I […]
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot There are two important pieces of ‘grey literature’ today: the first, from the Royal Society, is a report on how global population and consumption are linked, and the implications for a finite planet. The report, lead by Sir John Sulston, emphasizes the problem of unsustainable consumption in industrialized countries […]
I’ve seen a new approach to use of ornamental plants several occasions recently: walls of plants covering outdoor and indoor sites. At the indoor site, in Heathrow Airport, I was even more happy to see that Patrick Blanc, credited with conceiving the ‘indoor living wall’ in the legend next to the plantings, is described as a ‘botanist’. […]
This is a video of a flour mill with two stones in a small shop outside the gates of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. The film shows the grain being poured into the hoppers above the stones, and then going between the millstones. From one stone set, the brown/wholemeal flour goes into sacks; in the […]
Anne Osterrieder has a new series on her blog called Faces of plant cell biologists, where we are asked a series of questions. So far, it has featured Charlotte Carroll (also an AoBBlog.com guest author here), Chris Hawes and Kentaro Tamura, who all answer Anne’s questions is surprisingly contrasting but complementary ways. Today, I have been […]
Via Scoop.it – AnnBotNew Agriculturist online at http://www.new-ag.info provides an update on the latest news and developments in tropical agriculture for a global audience. Keeping track of our changing environment and humanity’s impact and dependence on natural cycles is a key theme of this edition. A new year also heralds new beginnings as New Agriculturist […]
This videoblog from http://www.AoBBlog.com is about one of the Cell and Developmental Biology practicals that I run at the University of Leicester for course #BS1003. It involves infection of carrot root slices with three strains of Agrobacterium, two of which cause the plant cells to divide. An earlier video showed how we set up the […]
Virtual studios and video blogs: I’ve produced and edited my first videoblogs, and here I’m going to give some indications of how they were made. The videoblogs mean I can tell you about interesting things in plant sciences and about my work, and explain informally some of the stories around the things we publish in […]
AoB Plants is seeking new academic Chief Editor. AoB Plants has established itself quickly as an on-line, open-access Journal for publication of high quality papers on all aspects of plant sciences. As a sister to the subscription-based Annals of Botany, and to AoBBlog.com, it has been publishing increasing numbers of papers, and is gaining citations […]
Over the last five years, we have published several papers from the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Geologically and climatically it is a unique area: the Baltic plate including precambrian exposures meets the Eurasian tectonic plate, and the oceanic/maritime influence fights with continental cold to give a very variable climate averaging -10C in winter […]
The third in a series of videoblogs from AoBBlog.com about the background pictures used on Annals of Botany covers. The Youtube link is here, and it is best watched in HD/1080p resolution. An outline of the text is below the video insert below, and the text includes some extra links. A shrubby tree, Plumeria ?rubra […]
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