Articles related to botany

Cover Story: Genes that Cuddle in the Cold by: Joshua Mylne An ingenious experiment has allowed scientists to observe how plant genes move around the nucleus to locations that either stop or stimulate flowering depending on temperature.	Browse: Nullarbor’s Ancient Forests Uncovered
Browse: Fertilisers Make Plants Weaker	Browse: Plant-based Chemicals Could Reverse Terminal Cancer
Feature: Flower Evolution from the Birds to the Bees by: Mani Shrestha, Adrian G. Dyer and Martin Burd Walking around in the Australian bush we can see a dazzling array of different flower colours, but have you ever wondered how and why these evolved?	Browse: Size Matters for Sexually Deceptive Orchids
Browse: Even the Light Touch of a Green Thumb Slows Plant Growth	Feature: The Ancestor of All Flowers by: Charles Foster An international collaborative project has reconstructed the ancestor of all modern flowering plants. What can it tell us about the evolution of this important group?
Browse: Lilly Pilly Fossils Reveal Snowless Snowy Mountains	Feature: Heavy Metal Farming by: Antony van der Ent Special plants called hyperaccumulators can extract valuable metals from mineralised soils, yielding metallic crops that are more valuable than food grown in soils that are unsuitable for normal agriculture.
Feature: Plant Viruses Threaten Crops as Climate Warms by: Piotr Trebicki Climate change will exacerbate the spread of a virus that reduces the yield of infected wheat by 70%.	Feature: Back from the Dead by: Brett Williams & Sagadevan Mundree Resurrection plants can survive for years in an air-dry state before growing at full capacity when the rain comes. How do they do it, and can this trait be transferred to improve the tolerance of crops to drought, heat, salinity and infection?
Feature: The Tree That Waters Itself by: Matt Biddick Island gigantism might have driven the evolution of one of the most bizarre adaptations in the plant kingdom.	Feature: Cell Walls in Wood Crack Like Concrete by: Adya Singh & Ramesh Chavan The discovery that nanometre-scale cracks form in the cell walls of wood can be exploited to engineer high-performance floorboards from soft woods such as pine.
Browse: Lentils Can Boost Selenium	Browse: How Plants Control Vitamin C Production Revealed
Browse: Climate Changes Timing of Leaf Growth	Browse: Mountain Plants Can’t Climb Higher
Browse: Moa Affected Plant Evolution	Browse: Plants Respond to Touch
Browse: Can Trees Cope with the Third Degree?	Browse: Wine Grapes Gasp for Breath
Browse: Trees Remember Heatwaves	Browse: Climate Change Threatens Māori Plant Use and Knowledge
Browse: Moss polysaccharide discovery likened to beta glucen by: Andrew Spence A polysaccharide discovered in moss is showing the potential to be exploited for health, industrial and medical uses.