Botany One interviews Dr Hervé Sauquet for Fascination for Plants Day and learn more about his mission to understand the evolution of flowers.

Botany One interviews Dr Kelsey Byers for Fascination for Plants Day and learn more about her research on the evolution of floral scent.

Assessing the impact of traits on wheat yield and stability under climate change.

Marcela Mendoza-Suárez and colleagues have a new tool to turbocharge legumes.

Above a certain trauma threshold, male trees had a high probability of becoming female, possibly in a bid to better their chances at reproduction.

How aluminium, silicon and two researchers are connected.

Carnivorous plants need to manufacture a variety of specialised chemicals to lure, trap and digest prey.

Each year International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March. This year’s theme is “collective individualism – how our individual actions, conversations, behaviours and mind-sets can have an impact on our larger society.” Women are still underrepresented in STEM for a variety of complex reasons, some of which are interconnected, including unsupportive work environments and […]

It is said that sildenafil citrate can help preserve flowers. Here's an experiment that you could do at home, but probably shouldn't, to find out.

The Linnean Society held its second student conference last Friday, Student Spotlights 2020: Discover the next generation of natural historians. I had hoped to go to last year’s event, but that was squashed by a sudden migraine. My visit this year showed that I’d probably missed out on something fascinating. The description was “In this […]

It is well-known that people are better at identifying animals than plants and this relative inability of people to identify plants is increasingly termed “plant blindness”. Recent research has identified links between undervaluing nature, mental health, and plant blindness. Ask anyone to identify common animals and most will easily identify badgers, foxes, blackbirds and otters. […]

CPlantBox generates a variety of 3D full plant architectures and accurately simulates water and carbon flow in the full plant.