There are plant biology journals that seem to concentrate on a single taxon (you know the ones I mean!) – e.g. The Plant Journal and The Plant Cell. There are others devoted to the molecular biology of plants, such as...
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Tag - Plant Cell
Nigel Chaffey
Picture perfect vs. perfect genuine…
With free digital image editing software has come the temptation to ‘massage’ images so that they look their best.
Chloroplasts are how old???
It is widely acknowledged that eukaryotic cells (you know, the ones with a membrane-bound nucleus and a variety of other membrane-bound organelles (cf. prokaryotes)) came to be so complex by a series of ‘mergers and...
The Repressive ER
Translation-inhibition activity by miRNAs occurs on the ER, and requires AMP1, which encodes an integral membrane protein associated with ER.
Roles for calcium: numero uno
One important function of calcium is the part it plays in the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.
Sex inequality in science: skirting around the issue?
Recognising the under-representation of women in the science arena (including botany, which is a science – see David Chamovitz’s Daily Plant blog on this point), the European Commission (EC, Brussels-based overlords of...
Hard-up botanist, please give generously
Times are hard; everybody wants more (but seems to be getting less…), many demands are placed upon the flimsy, finite finances of states and their funding agencies. But if future food and energy supplies are to be...
New methodologies…
In the olden days – e.g. the 19th Century – science was severely hampered by the lack of technology to perform the experiments that those gentlemen (sorry, gentlewomen…) of the 20th and 21st Centuries of great vision...
