Botany One

Wikidata is a global, open database that can help connect botanical data, such as species, collectors, and collections, and anyone in the botanical community can help improve it.

Scientists analysing 2,000 herbarium specimens discovered jewelflowers survive new climates not by evolving, but by engineering their own familiar microenvironments

Botany One interviews Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, a plant evolutionary biologist that once she fell in love with tropical plants, she never looked back.

The sweet molecules plants make during photosynthesis double as sophisticated thermometers, revealing a hidden layer of plant environmental sensing.

This week, nectar with colour, plants with none, how small differences foster biodiversity and small gardens that bring us together.

Polish researchers discovered the secret to thriving urban gardens isn't green thumbs or good soil, it's the social networks gardeners build together.

Researchers discovered that tiny temperature differences within single farm fields can be more important than entire landscapes for bee foraging success.

Botany One interviews Dr Kenji Suetsugu, a Japanese plant ecologist fascinated with plants that completely abandoned photosynthesis.

Have you ever wondered what’s inside a flower? It might look delicate and simple, but inside, they are busy running a secret operation.

This week: Rocío Deanna on the importance of staying curious, the switch to agriculture in the Andes was neither fast nor furious, how caterpillars can be so injurious, and more...

Isotope analysis reveals agricultural transition in the Andes was marked by remarkable stability, not the crisis archaeologists long assumed drove farming elsewhere.

Scientists have discovered caterpillars inject chemical weapons into plants that shut down defences before they can even form.