Botany One

Las Vegas trees create 17°C shade oases but can't cool city air like temperate climates due to desert adaptations that limit transpiration.

Botany One interviews Dr Rocío Deanna, an Argentinian botanist fascinated by the evolution of the Solanaceae family.

This week, extreme weather in the Amazon, extreme control of agriculture, David Alors on the challenges of expeditions, and more...

Adding tiny amounts of organic waste transforms sterile lunar dust into farmland, but the secret lies in managing competing bacterial communities around plant roots.

Your colour-changing African violets aren't misbehaving. They're using sophisticated molecular switches that regulate their genes.

Botany One interviews Dr David Alors, a Spanish researcher fascinated by the systematics and evolution of lichens.

As seasons get more extreme in the Amazon, weather patterns will shift across South America, threatening both indigenous communities and economic stability.

This week, we have primroses in the rough, plants growing tough, midnight science in the botany lab, and more.

Why would you make leaves that are all cost and no benefit? A ghost plant puzzle is solved.

A new metabolic model identifies the genetic basis of salt stress resilience in plants.

Botany One interviews Dr Karolina Heyduk, a plant evolutionary biologist interested in the origins a unique type of photosynthesis.

Well-managed golf courses are helping save endangered primrose flowers, allowing them grow in number and stay genetically healthy as farms become less friendly to wildflowers.