The information here is no longer current at 1/1/2019. Annals of Botany offers Open Access with competitive Article Processing Charges (APCs) given in our instructions. I’m delighted to say that we have reduced the Annals of Botany Open Access charges to £1000 GBP/ $1615 USD/ €1160 EURO for all papers. Open Access papers are freely […]

How do you process so much data?

How can we grow sustainable bananas?

A lot of light and not much heat came from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Study Week on ‘Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context of Development’ held in the Vatican earlier this year. The summary of proceedings are given at http://tinyurl.com/pontifical-summary, from papers published in http://tinyurl.com/pontifical-science – New Biotechnology 27(5): 445 – 717 […]

PHYLIP, a 30-year-old phylogeny inference package, remains a popular and reliable tool for analysing data, particularly in botany.

Roadside botany in the Brazilian Cerrado.

A Coordinated Research Project (CRP) sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) aims to improve banana and cassava crops, vital for food security in Asia and Africa.

The New York Times has an informative and thoughtful article by Sean Carroll about interspecific hybrids this week. The article starts with photographs of a range of remarkable animal hybrids, then moves on to the science and evolutionary implications with plants and insects. The article quotes James Mallet as saying that perhaps 10 percent of […]

Self-cleaning nanotechnology from plant leaf surfaces comes of age

The website Zester explores food and drink culture, including potential species for exploitation and recipes.

As the undergraduates I teach will testify, I’ve railed many times against ‘Death by Powerpoint’. Somewhat amazingly, a few talks at the Science Online 2010 Conference Solo10 did combine this decidedly 21st century phenomenon with mediaeval techniques to create a new level of torture, ‘Hung, Drawn and Quartered by Powerpoint.’ But in my own talks, I’ve found […]

I am with about 150 people interested in “science communication on-line” at the British Library in London this week. Journals are all about the communication of science results, and the not-for-profit charity that owns us, The Annals of Botany Company, is dedicated to the dissemination of botanical knowledge. So it is critical that we are […]