Botany One

This week, Juliane Ishida on her work with parasitic plants, how poor timing can spur flower evolution and a carnivorous plant that will you have your hand off, if you have tiny hands.

Food Dive reports on an attempt by Mars to keep chocolate affordable and make your M&Ms CRISPR.

Some plants don’t flower at the same time as their pollinators are most active, and this mismatch can actually help keep a wide variety of flower shapes and sizes in nature by changing which traits are most useful at different times.

Gonzalez and colleagues introduce CAN BON, the Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network, a new project to track changes across the nation.

Digital images of herbarium specimens can be used to non-destructively measure woody plant growth and assess response to climate change in the Arctic.

Inside a tree can live up to one trillion beings. But seeing the bacteria hidden in its woody tissue takes a lot of work.

Botany One interviews Dr. Juliane Ishida who has gone miles —literally — to undercover the mysteries of parasitic plants.

A tiny butterwort found in Mexico has surprised scientists with its ability to catch prey. It has to be efficient as it has only a brief time to get everything prepared for the next generation.

This list on Substack has been quiet, and now we're shutting down our account entirely. Why? Well it’s because Substack is on the same route as X. I’ll explain why I think that is and, if it bothers you, what some alternatives are.

Orchids are one of the most successful plant families on the planet, with over 20,000 species, but many of those species are endangered. For the orchids of Serbia, help is at hand.

Only invasive weeds thrived when scientists warmed island soil, while native plants stayed hungry despite being surrounded by potential food.

This week we have a plant that's gone its own way, how you can know a tree as an individual and Duarte Figueiredo on the hidden complexity of plant biology.