Botany One

This week, the importance of passion in plant science, mass extinctions that aren't, the surprising complexity of your garden and more...

What might appear to be one network of plants and pollinators may in fact be many.

Botany One interviews Dr Gehan Jayasuriya, one of the pioneers of seed ecology in Sri Lanka.

A story popular in New Scientist at the moment questions what we know of the deep past, and it has a plant twist.

Researchers at Colorado State University have found the genetic basis of attraction - if you’re a carnivorous plant seeking prey.

Amazon gold mining leaves forests unable to heal for centuries, because miners carelessly turn the landscape into a giant sieve.

The plant whose drinking habit fooled botanists for decades, chaos inside orderly cells, and more...

How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?

You might expect the instructions a cell receives to make a flower to be precise, but the response to those instructions isn’t.

The dream of crops that could drink seawater has taken a hit as botanists prove that Nolana mollis, a desert survivor long believed to hydrate itself from atmospheric brine, actually relies on conventional deep-root water uptake to survive Chile's bone-dry Atacama Desert.

Botany One interviews Prof. Pilar Márquez-Cardona, a plant biotechnologist seeking to put cutting-edge science at the service of local communities.

Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?