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🌻🪖 War is turning Ukraine’s fertiliser problem into a catastrophe 🧪

Long-term declines in nutrients, and soil damage, have been turbo-charged by the Russian invasion. But a new plan may help restore some of the world’s most fertile soils.

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A field of sunflowers, below a blue sky. The horizontal halving between the blue sky and the golden sunflower heads makes it look like an allusion to the Ukrainian flag.
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Ready for the Plant Science Wales meeting, this morning.
Alun attempting to look human in the morning. A view of an orange fungus, across grass up to a tree. An overripe “Pink Ballerina“ fungus looking very frilly. A red fungus lifting the rim of its cap to reveal yellow gills.
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Everyone agrees we should save pollinators, but do we only consider the cute ones? Andrés Pereira-Guaqueta on a pollinator for Balanophora tobiracola.

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October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"Look for something that you are really passionate about in Botany, what makes your heart beat faster;" @glauceae.bsky.social shares her thoughts in Botany One.

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September 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Invasive Species Outperform Natives by Flowering Out of Season

A new study reveals how off-season flowering helps invasive plants outcompete native species.

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Red flowers, but are they in or out of season?
September 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Ramiro Aguilar: “Plants Are the Most Incredible Organisms”

"Many new discoveries in plant science are still waiting to be revealed to the naked eye. Patience and keen observation are invaluable skills for any plant science student."

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September 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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How the Tlahuica-Pjiekakjoo Keep Their Mycological Heritage Thriving

A decade-long collaboration reveals how an endangered Indigenous group holds unparalleled knowledge of wild fungi, and how they’re passing it on to future generations.

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September 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Parasitic plants help build lignin deposits in host tissues

Their unknown function in developing hausteria remains to be uncovered.

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A hand holding a stem of yellow rattle with its distinctive flowers.
September 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"Diversity of perspectives and knowledge stimulates creativity, and collaborative work enables projects that would be impossible to achieve alone." - Dr. Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona.

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Photo of Dr. Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona smiling at the camera.
September 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Seedling emergence is catastrophically affected by depth of volcanic ash

5 cm of volcanic ash leads to the loss of seedling emergence on the volcanic island of La Palma, likely affecting succession for decades after a recent eruption.

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A pine cone and a tiny seedling on otherwise barren volcanic ash.
August 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Analysing the calcium isotope ratios in the teeth of three herbivorous dinosaurs found together has revealed how dinosaurs, all after plants to eat, could exist side-by-side through niche separation.

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A young dinosaur eating a fern
August 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Gunfire doesn't stop Botany. Researchers uncovered over 4,600 previously unrecognised specimens collected during the First World War, shedding light on the resilience of scientific curiosity and the importance of documenting biodiversity, even in conflict.

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Workers at Kew in Black and White.
August 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Liedson Carneiro: "I believe it’s essential to build a strong foundation in natural history. Observing organisms in their environments and understanding their traits and behaviors sharpens your intuition and helps you ask meaningful questions."

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Dr Liedson Carneiro on fieldwork.
August 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🍫 Chocolate fights climate change with gene editing 🧪
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Food Dive reports on an attempt by Mars to keep chocolate affordable and make your M&Ms CRISPR.

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Orange and yellow cacao pods (Theobroma cacao) growing directly from the trunk of a tree, showing the natural cauliflory growth pattern. The ribbed, football-shaped pods display various stages of ripeness, with some showing dark spots indicating potential disease pressure. Lichen-covered bark and tropical foliage visible in background.
August 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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When Pollinators and Flowers Have Timing Issues

Some plants don’t flower at the same time as their pollinators are most active, which helps maintain a variety of flower shapes and sizes by changing which traits are most useful at different times.

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A young man in a sun hat and fieldwork gear stands, smiling, in a field of flowers.
August 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🌱How Canada plans to plug biodiversity data gaps with CAN BON 🧪
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Gonzalez and colleagues introduce CAN BON, the Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network, a new project to track changes across the nation.

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Close-up view through a magnifying glass of a sugar maple (Acer saccharum) winter bud, showing the detailed brown scales and pointed tip structure against a blurred background of hands holding the magnifying glass.
August 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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"When you need to do something new, don’t waste time trying to reinvent the wheel. Ask someone who already knows how to do it. Learning from experienced peers or mentors will save you time, frustration, and help you grow faster as a scientist."

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Dr. Ishida taking a selfie during fieldwork at Serra do Cipó in Minas Gerais, Brazil, smiling at the camera while wearing sunglasses on her head and a white shirt, surrounded by the natural cerrado vegetation where she conducts her parasitic plant research.
August 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🌳🦠 Tree-Microbe relationships run deep 🧪
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Inside a tree can live up to one trillion beings. But seeing the bacteria hidden in its woody tissue takes a lot of work.

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A metal spout or tap inserted into the deeply furrowed bark of a sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) for syrup collection, with a white collection bucket positioned below to catch the flowing sap.
August 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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"We resubmitted the paper elsewhere, and for the next 10 years, it was the most cited publication of my career."

Dr Juliane Ishida on the importance of perseverance in publishing papers

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Dr. Juliane Ishida, a smiling woman with long dark hair wearing a black sleeveless top and pearl earrings, photographed against a lush green backdrop of leafy plants with small pink flowers.
August 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Butterworts catch prey with their leaves. Each leaf is covered with microscopic glands that produce sticky mucilage to catch prey, plus digestive enzymes to break them down. So the prey were left on the leaves, when they were examined under a microscope. Or were they? The authors write: (5/10)
Close-up view of Pinguicula crenatiloba leaves showing the carnivorous plant in action. The bright green, spoon-shaped leaves have a glossy, wet appearance from the sticky mucilage coating their surface. A small dark insect is trapped on one of the central leaves, demonstrating the plant's prey capture mechanism. The leaves' surfaces are dotted with tiny glandular structures that produce the adhesive secretions and digestive enzymes. Additional leaves are visible in the background, all growing from the soil in the plant's characteristic compact rosette formation.
August 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🌱 A tiny carnivore with a voracious appetite 🧪
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A tiny butterwort found in Mexico has surprised scientists with its ability to catch prey. It has to be efficient as it has only a brief time to get everything prepared for the next generation.

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A tiny Pinguicula crenatiloba butterwort plant held in a human palm, showing the remarkable scale difference. The carnivorous plant forms a compact rosette of pale green, spoon-shaped leaves less than a centimetre across, with moss and debris attached. A single delicate white flower blooms on a thin, hairy stem rising above the leaves. The plant appears minuscule against the backdrop of the person's hand.
August 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🌱 Saving orchids in Serbia 🧪
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Orchids are one of the most successful plant families on the planet, with over 20,000 species, but many of those species are endangered. For the orchids of Serbia, help is at hand.

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Close-up photograph of a terrestrial orchid flower with pale pink and white petals. The flower has a distinctive anthropomorphic shape with an upper hood-like structure and lower petals that extend outward like arms and legs, with long trailing spurs. The labellum (lower lip) is white with purple spotting and striping. The flower grows on a thick green stem surrounded by blurred forest vegetation in soft natural lighting.
August 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Advances in understanding seed formation could be crucial for future food security. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo explains why studying the molecular mechanisms behind reproduction matters and shares advice for aspiring botanists.

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A purple water lily flower in full bloom with pointed petals surrounding a bright yellow center dotted with purple stamens. The flower floats on water surrounded by large green lily pads in soft focus in the background.
August 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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“Flower-rich dykes attract many more bees than, for example, flower strips in agricultural areas. And especially more endangered species. About ten percent of the bees we found are on the red list, such as the Knautia bee, the red cuckoo bumblebee, the meadow bee and the variegated wasp bee.” (6/10)
A fuzzy bumblebee with black body and orange-brown bands forages on a purple thistle flower. The bee is covered in pale pollen as it feeds on the spiky, globe-shaped bloom, with more thistle buds and flowers visible in the soft-focused background.
August 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🌱 River dykes are "insect highways" for wild bees 🧪
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Dykes are a lifeline for bees. Researchers found nearly half of all Dutch bee species live on river dykes, with 10% being endangered red-listed species.

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Traditional Dutch windmill beside a water channel in green countryside. The stone windmill with wooden blades sits on grassy embankments lined with lush vegetation and wildflowers.
August 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM