I’ve been changing how we handle blog posts at Botany One. We’re funded by the Annals of Botany Company, a charity that existed to promote botany. In reality, we’re still closely related to the Annals of Botany, and the sister journals AoB Plants and in silico Plants (which isn’t easy…

Every so often you find a new site, and then discover everyone else has known about it for years. For once, this is a site I’ve known about for ages — but it seems not everyone else has. …

Not all honey is equal. New research by Clearwater and colleagues has been looking how mānuka nectar, an essential ingredient of mānuka honey, is affected by various factors such as temperature, drought and even the genes of mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium, Myrtaceae) plants. Understanding the composition of the nectar is important…

What is in the air that you breathe at home? It’s mostly nitrogen. There’s a significant amount of oxygen, along with some other chemicals. There are certainly some you’d want to track. For example, carbon monoxide is something you’d want to know about. That’s why you probably have a carbon…

It’s Friday afternoon, so I’m relaxing with a video, in this case the latest from Brilliant Botany, a follow up to the earlier video, The Plants of Pokémon Go. Originally published at Botany One.

Ben Goldacre’s book title I Think You’ll Find it’s a Bit More Complicated Than That, could easily be taken as a motto for botany. One example I’ve seen today is an opinion piece in Molecular Plant Pathology that looks at what plant pathogen effector proteins are doing. Nick Snelders and…

Yesterday was our final day at Bioenergy Genomics 2017. There’s quite a bit of video to sort through and process, so I’ll be busy for a while with it. We’ll be putting that up on YouTube. In the mean time, as with the previous days, here are the previews. In…

We’re still at Bioenergy Genomics 2017, streaming talks when we can. We’ll be processing these to go on to YouTube. In the meantime you can see the rushes, as it were, through the tweets and Periscope links. Bioengineering improved photosynthetic efficiency to sustainably increase productivity in C3 and C4 bioenergy…