Climate change, land availability and biomass potential.
We’re at Bioenergy Genomics 2017, streaming talks when we can. We got two yesterday.How policy makers learned to start worrying and fell out of love with...
View ArticleGenerating, capturing and utilising genetic variation
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...
View ArticleIdeotypes for yield in a changing climate — drought stress and beyond
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...
View ArticleAoBBlog and Botany One
Over the weekend we’ve been busy changing the name and the address of this site from AoBBlog to Botany One. It’s part of a process of tidying up all our social media handles. We remain a weblog owned...
View ArticleWhat is it that plant pathogens are attacking?
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...
View ArticlePoképlants
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...
View ArticleCan Trees Track the Air that You Breathe?
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,...
View ArticleWhat is it that gives mānuka floral nectar its unique composition?
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,...
View ArticleSeeking Science? See ScienceSeeker
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. So for those...
View ArticleWhy are/aren’t we following you on Twitter?
Copyright: rvlsoft / 123RF Stock PhotoWe’ve had some queries about why we follow who we do on Twitter, as we follow quite a few people. We also occasionally get asked by some people why we’re not...
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