After the summer break, the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics celebrated the 66th edition of its annual congress in sunny Bari, a beautiful city located in the heel of Italy’s boot. Want to know more about “Climate-smart plants to feed the future”? Don’t miss this post-conference blog post.

This botanical pill gives a brief overview of the evolutionary history of land plants, from their origin in aquatic habitats (when green algae crawled out of water) Million Years Ago to their amazing diversification in terrestrial habitats (from small algal scum to big forests & flower gardens) that completely changed life on Earth.

To celebrate the pride month, Botany One had a conversation with Sixto-Juan Zavala, founder of Queer Botany - an initiative aimed at connecting young members of the LGBTQ+ community with the plant world through botanical drawing, storytelling and walking in nature.

Old collections of dried plants trapped in herbaria for centuries are acquiring unprecedented powers in understanding the history of plant evolution and improving biodiversity conservation, thanks to new technological tools.

Small doses of plant science to help with some of the more confusing articles.

What would the world be like if not a single plant species were lost? The expert Richard T. Corlett recently reviewed challenges and opportunities of plant conservation programs, with some tips to achieve the “zero extinction for land plants” goal.

The European Research Council awarded a consolidator grant to the plant biologist Debora Gasperini, which investigation strives to solve some mysteries of stress response to pathogen attacks and wounding mediated by the phytohormone Jasmonate.

An introduction to the concept of plant stress and briefly describe a class of phytohormones – called Jasmonates - that mediate plant response to damages caused by herbivore insects, necrotrophic fungi, and mechanical wounding.

What is Arabidopsis thaliana and why do botanists like it so much?

Since the release of the first plant genome in 2000, the field of next-generation sequencing applied to botanical species has bloomed and expanded from model organism (Arabidopsis thaliana) to crops, thus becoming a powerful tool to guide progress towards a more sustainable agriculture.

To celebrate International Women's Day, Botany One highlights nine historical figures who made great contributions to Botany - from the first pioneering plant illustrators and species collectors to recent Nobel prize winners. With their talent and hard work, these brilliant women participated in adventurous botanical expeditions, launched courageous initiatives for biodiversity conservation and paved the way to tremendous scientific advances (not only in Botany).

New research from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), sheds new light on the evolution of land plants, and specifically in one of the mechanisms underlying plant terrestrialization (the colonization of dry land).