Anne Osterrieder has a new series on her blog called Faces of plant cell biologists, where we are asked a series of questions. So far, it has featured Charlotte Carroll (also an AoBBlog.com guest author here), Chris Hawes and Kentaro Tamura, who all answer Anne’s questions is surprisingly contrasting but complementary ways. Today, I have been [...]
Via Scoop.it – AnnBotNew Agriculturist online at www.new-ag.info provides an update on the latest news and developments in tropical agriculture for a global audience. Keeping track of our changing environment and humanity’s impact and dependence on natural cycles is a key theme of this edition. A new year also heralds new beginnings as New Agriculturist [...]
This videoblog from www.AoBBlog.com is about one of the Cell and Developmental Biology practicals that I run at the University of Leicester for course #BS1003. It involves infection of carrot root slices with three strains of Agrobacterium, two of which cause the plant cells to divide. An earlier video showed how we set up the [...]
Virtual studios and video blogs: I’ve produced and edited my first videoblogs, and here I’m going to give some indications of how they were made. The videoblogs mean I can tell you about interesting things in plant sciences and about my work, and explain informally some of the stories around the things we publish in [...]
AoB Plants is seeking new academic Chief Editor. AoB Plants has established itself quickly as an on-line, open-access Journal for publication of high quality papers on all aspects of plant sciences. As a sister to the subscription-based Annals of Botany, and to AoBBlog.com, it has been publishing increasing numbers of papers, and is gaining citations [...]
Over the last five years, we have published several papers from the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Geologically and climatically it is a unique area: the Baltic plate including precambrian exposures meets the Eurasian tectonic plate, and the oceanic/maritime influence fights with continental cold to give a very variable climate averaging -10C in winter [...]
I thought this was an interesting video on hidden patterns in nature.
The third in a series of videoblogs from AoBBlog.com about the background pictures used on Annals of Botany covers. The Youtube link is here, and it is best watched in HD/1080p resolution. An outline of the text is below the video insert below, and the text includes some extra links. A shrubby tree, Plumeria ?rubra [...]
We used a bunch of bananas, one of the species I work with, as the main background image on the cover of Annals of Botany two years ago. I am discussing the cover images in Annals of Botany in three video blogs. The video blog is directly available in YouTube at http://youtu.be/UsjbhWnHQpA – please use the 1080p version [...]
I am discussing the cover images in Annals of Botany in my first video blog today. Each year, we have a large image in the background, and the three videos in this series will discuss the species in these images, where they were taken and why we used them. I have chosen a species that [...]