Botany One

Thousands of overlooked plant specimens from this country could fill critical gaps in global biodiversity knowledge.

Botany One interviews Dr Patricia Silva-Flores, a Chilean biologist whose work brings attention to the vital, overlooked role of fungi in ecosystems and society.

This week, an unusual shield, beads to save ecosystems, and what makes a plant a phoenix.

Science has just proven the most despised bugs in human history to be key pollinators of some of the most bizarre and fascinating plants on Earth.

Jonathan Drori shows plants are worth treasuring, by treasuring his young readers.

Digital revolution provides perfect opportunity to identify species.

A Brazilian team develops a scalable bioengineering method using alginate beads to deliver mosses, algae, and cyanobacteria for restoring degraded soils.

Botany One interviews Francisco Navarro-Rosales, a PhD student fascinated by fire ecology in tropical ecosystems.

Some southern villages in the Netherlands continue the ancient practice of protecting their homes with St. John’s bouquets and wreaths. An ethnobotanical survey was recently conducted to understand the species composition and function of these blessed charms.

Surveying visitors at a major botanical garden reveals a surprising gap in plant evolution knowledge, and a clear opportunity to close it.

This week, nature and nurture, the long life of a rose, and Dr. Stefanie Ickert-Bond on the importance of taxonomy.

Drones, equipped with automated detection systems, can efficiently survey difficult habitats, enabling targeted management of noxious weeds.