For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed bats pollinating a plant in the Merremia genus! This tropical vine's clever strategy involves changing its scent throughout the day to attract different pollinators.
For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed bats pollinating a plant in the Merremia genus! This tropical vine's clever strategy involves changing its scent throughout the day to attract different pollinators.
Wikidata is a global, open database that can connect botanical data, such as species, collectors, and collections, and anyone in the botanical community can help improve it.
Blog post: https://botany.one/2025/07/wikidata-for-botanists-connecting-people-plants-and-data/
Original article: https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf062/8158086 (FREE)
Interested in learning about plant genomics? We're offering an opportunity for a few students to join our genomics team and gain hands-on experience in DNA extraction, ONT sequencing, and data analysis. Reach out if you're interested: https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #PlantScience #OpenScience
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Meet Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, who fell in love with plants during childhood camping trips in California's redwood forests. Her passion for plant-pollinator relationships began with a magical moment watching hummingbirds visit curved flowers in Costa Rica's cloud forests.
No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts.
#Transposons #TEburst #AdaptiveRadiation #Diversification #Hybridization #Scalesia #PlantScience
https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13100-025-00362-z
Meet the botanist who discovered a new "ghost plant" species hiding in plain sight for decades! Dr. Kenji Suetsugu shares how childhood wonder led to groundbreaking discoveries about plants that abandoned photosynthesis.
Did you know nectar can be colourful? Over 70 plant species produce vibrant red, yellow, brown, and even black nectar! These colours aren't just pretty - they're chemical signals that attract pollinators and fight off microbes.
From #KewGardens: Scientists at Kew & QMUL have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to the devastating fungus responsible for ash dieback disease - and #evolution works fast: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/polygenic-evolution-ash-dieback
The study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp2990
The distinctive flavour of brassicas comes from their chemical defences that they use to dissuade herbivores. So how come some caterpillars don't merely survive but actually thrive on them? It turns out they have a trick to slip by those defences.
Las Vegas needs cooling. More street trees seems an obvious answer, but it turns out that it's not quite that simple. Tree in temperate zones behave in a different way to trees planted in a desert. Juan Henao and colleagues have been modelling options.
Meet Dr. Rocío Deanna, a botanist tracing nightshade evolution from ancient fossils to modern ecosystems! Her work bridges paleobotany & phylogenetics to unlock Solanaceae secrets.
The Best Way to Farm on the Moon Uses Barely Any Fertiliser
https://botany.one/2025/06/the-best-way-to-farm-on-the-moon-uses-barely-any-fertiliser/
Adding tiny amounts of organic waste transforms sterile lunar dust into farmland, but the secret lies in managing competing bacterial communities around plant roots.
Image: Artist’s impression of a lunar farm using clip-art. Almost certainly not what the paper’s authors had in mind.
Why won’t your African Violets stay the same colour?
https://botany.one/2025/06/why-wont-your-african-violets-stay-the-same-colour/
Your colour-changing African violets aren't misbehaving. They're using sophisticated molecular switches that regulate their genes.
#Botany #PlantScience #Houseplants
Image: Usambaraveilchen. Photo by Hedwig Storch / Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usambaraveilchen_2008-1-17.JPG
The National Hemp Germplasm Collection
!!! NEW DATASET !!!
The Field Phenotyping Platform 1.0 is now available - a massive open dataset for winter #wheat research combining imaging, trait, environmental & genetic data!
What's included:
- 4,000+ wheat plots across 6 years
- 153,000+ high-resolution aligned images
- 8 key traits: canopy cover, plant height, head counts, senescence, heading date, yield & protein content
- Genetic markers + environmental data
- Time-series format perfect for modeling
What it can be used for:
- #CropModeling & phenotyping method development
- Genotype-environment interaction studies
- Growth dynamics analysis
- #MachineLearning applications in agriculture
- Genomic prediction research
This comprehensive resource bridges #PlantScience and #AI communities, accelerating research in climate-adaptive agriculture
Open access paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaf051
Broken down in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco while searching for lichens... How local hospitality saved the day and reinforced a scientist's love for fieldwork!
Wet Gets Wetter, Dry Gets Drier in the Amazon Rainforest
https://doi.org/pr26
As seasons get more extreme in the Amazon, weather patterns will shift across South America, threatening both indigenous communities and economic stability.
#Botany #PlantScience #InBrief
Protecting seagrasses could prevent billions of dollars in damages, research finds
A study predicts that protecting at-risk seagrass meadows could avert climate damages valued in excess of $200 billion by preventing the release of 1.2 billion tons of carbon pollution. This is equivalent to removing the annual carbon footprint of 100 million U.S. homes.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/protecting-seagrasses-could-prevent-billions-of-dollars-in-damages-research-finds/ via @floridainternational #plantscience #Science #Plants #climatechange
The genetic prison that traps a ghost plant
https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70060
Why would you make leaves that are all cost and no benefit? A ghost plant puzzle is solved.
#Botany #PlantScience #InBrief (1/10)
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