Why do students think plants are “boring”? One factor may be that they do not see plant movement in real time.

One of the way I amuse myself is by keeping a list of scientific papers which amuse me – my lol file.

Plants breathe through their stomata – so how do they manage to keep pathogens out?

A summary of the last week from The Understorey:   How to make your tomato live forever.   The Plant Actin Cytoskeleton Responds to Signals from Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns.   A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change reveals that new scientific models are predicting that the increased “greening” of the Arctic will actually accelerate [...]

Genetically modified plants are usually produced using tissue culture, but techniques used to modify a plant genome also affect its epigenome.

These are links from our Scoop It page between September 21st and January 21st: Wrong species of Maple leaf on new Canadian bank notes The Bank of Canada blundered by using a Norwegian maple leaf instead of the country's native variety on its new banknotes, plant experts have claimed. Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre botanist [...]

So, you want to earn a lot of money after you graduate to pay off all those debts, right? In that case, according to Which University, you should have done Medicine or Dentistry. But you didn’t get in to those subjects (or why would you be reading AoB Blog – are you lost?) – so [...]