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Nov 22

Different blossoming schedules have kept these flowers from driving each other extinct

By Isabel Botany, News

A big part of evolution is competition-- when there are limited resources to go around, plants and animals have to duke it out for nutrients, mates, and places to live. That means that the flower-covered meadows of China’s Hengduan mountains…

Oct 28

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A spectral window into plants of the past

By Isabel Botany, News

Until now, the only way to learn about these traits from herbarium collections has required destroying bits of the precious specimens. But now researchers have developed a fast, nondestructive way of estimating the functional traits of herbarium specimens. The research, offers…

Sep 29

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Juicy research unearths new genome within the tomato family

By Isabel Botany, News, Plant Science

Hidden beneath the delicate, red skin and juicy flesh of a tomato is a wealth of nutrients and genetic makeup. With recent research on the first genome of a species in the tomatillo tribe (part of the tomato family), we…

Sep 23

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New Subspecies of Begonia Reported from Philippines

By Isabel Botany, News

Mt. Timolan Protected Landscape is one of the declared protected areas of the Philippines and is characterized by a variety of habitats. The presence of various microhabitats is reflected in the diversity of flora and fauna found there. However, limited…

Aug 23

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Critically endangered tree gets frisky in ‘desperate’ attempt for survival

By Isabel Botany, News

In a new paper researchers concluded the eucalypt, currently known as Eucalyptus sp. Cattai, should be formally described, after confusion over whether it was a distinctive new species or a peculiar population resulting from the hybridization of two already described…

Aug 16

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Hemiepiphytic figs reduce phosphorus competition by killing host trees

By Isabel Botany, News

Host-killing by hemiepiphytes is an endemic phenomenon in the tropics. Many fig species—keystone plants in tropical forests—have evolved the hemiepiphytic ecotype. However, the benefits and adaptive strategies of their special life history remain poorly understood.

Jul 06

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Indigenous Borneans knew a tree was two distinct species— genetic analysis confirms they were right

By Isabel Botany, News, Plant Science

Over 200 years ago, a Spanish botanist described Artocarpus odoratissimus, a species of fruit-bearing tree found in Borneo and the Philippines. The Iban people, who are indigenous to Borneo, know the tree to have two different varieties, which they call lumok and pingan, distinguished…

Jun 24

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Checklist of Vascular Plants Unveils Flora of Taita Hills in Kenya

By Isabel Botany, CSPB, News

As a part of the global biodiversity hotspots, the Taita Hills forests, located in Taita Taveta County in southeastern Kenya, forms the northernmost tip of the Eastern Arc Mountains. They are highly fragmented forests embedded in a human settlements and…

Jun 23

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The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated

By Isabel Botany, News

New insights into the evolutionary origins of unique African high mountain botanical diversity.

May 12

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Gametophytes are ready for their close up: Methods used to study obscure sexual portion of plant life cycle

By Isabel Blog, Botany, Plant Science

Despite their obscurity, gametophytes are vital to our understanding of biodiversity and to the successful implementation of conservation strategies.

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Different blossoming schedules have kept these flowers from driving each other extinct

A spectral window into plants of the past

Juicy research unearths new genome within the tomato family

New Subspecies of Begonia Reported from Philippines

Critically endangered tree gets frisky in ‘desperate’ attempt for survival

Hemiepiphytic figs reduce phosphorus competition by killing host trees

Indigenous Borneans knew a tree was two distinct species— genetic analysis confirms they were right

Checklist of Vascular Plants Unveils Flora of Taita Hills in Kenya

The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated

Gametophytes are ready for their close up: Methods used to study obscure sexual portion of plant life cycle

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