Every Monday we post The Week in Botany a collection of the most popular news, articles and jobs that you're posting each week to Bluesky and Mastodon. If you want it delivered to your inbox every Monday, you can sign up using your email address below. and Buttondown will deliver it.
Long-term declines in nutrients, and soil damage, have been turbo-charged by the Russian invasion. But a new plan may help restore some of the world’s most fertile soils.
This week, toxic nectar, the hidden ecosystem and orchids.
Orchids are a staggeringly diverse group of plants. There are almost five times as many species of orchid than mammals.
Botany One interviews Bethina Stein, a Brazilian PhD student digging up the hidden riches of the Cerrado.
Pitcher plants prove, lethally, that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
This week, your sensory superpowers, an accidental community, the largest herbarium in Africa and more...
When friends abandon them, some plants go on a killing spree.
Swedish urban forest gardens, created for sustainable food, surprisingly became valued more for fostering community connections and social cohesion than producing crops.
Botany One interviews Dr. Paul M. Kirika, the curator of the largest herbarium in tropical Africa.
Advanced imaging captures the growth of a parasite inside its host.
People’s impressions of forests often match scientific measures of biodiversity, with big implications for conservation and well-being.
This week, the creepiest pollinator, ghost herbaria and the hidden world of fungi.
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Botany One is a blog run by the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity. The goal of the blog is to promote Botany in all is aspects as well as discuss the human issues involved in being a botanist.
The current editors are:
Sarah Covshoff
Sarah is a plant molecular biologist passionate about communicating the science of the natural world to lay people and experts alike. previously worked as a PhD student and postdoctoral fellow in the field of C4 photosynthesis and now focuses on science communication.
Carlos is a PhD student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), studying the seed ecophysiology and functional ecology of the Brazilian Cerrado. As a science communicator, he looks to spread the word about the exciting world of plant sciences and highlight researchers from historically excluded groups and the science they do.
You can read more about Botany One on our About page.
In addition to Botany One, the company currently publishes three journals, the Annals of Botany, AoB PLANTS, and in silico Plants.
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