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Botany One📝 The Genetic Secret Behind Wasabi's Defensive Kick 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/g897b6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/g897b6</a>The genes that help plants draw in carbon dioxide also help plants kick out poisons when herbivores visit.<a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Scientists Find a Gene That Enables a Plant to Become a Vampire 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/pdxm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/pdxm</a>Scientists discover the gene that gives parasitic dodder its "sense of touch" that makes it an effective predator on host plants.<a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Less Can Be More For Modelling Invasive Species 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/pbqd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/pbqd</a>A new study reveals that sometimes adding more data to a model reduces its predictive power. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Plant Cells Look Bigger Under the Microscope, But Not the Way You'd Expect 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n96c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n96c</a>A new technique inflates plant cells, turning ordinary microscopes into super-powered tools. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Saving Space for Lapwings Between Crops and Wetlands 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n9td" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n9td</a>Saving lapwings means managing Italian farm landscapes for sparse vegetation. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Mapping Hope for Nearly Lost Plant Species 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n9s4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n9s4</a>Research identifies plants on the edge of extinction. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Does Bamboo Interfere with Panda Brains to Get Eaten? 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n9fw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n9fw</a> Scientists discovered that bamboo plants may actively influence pandas' brains and biology through tiny RNA molecules that enter their bloodstream. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 How One Tool Helps Different Fungi Hijack Plant Signalling 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n8ww" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n8ww</a>Scientists discover fungi use a universal "hacking tool" to trick plants into starvation mode, disabling their immune defences and causing devastating crop diseases worldwide.<a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Garden Choices Shape Urban Pollinator Havens 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n8kh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n8kh</a>Urban gardeners can make unusual niches for pollinators in their cities. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>What can an urban garden do for pollinators? Sexton and colleagues tracked pollinator visits in 33 community gardens across Berlin and Munich over two years, analysing how different factors affect which pollinators flourish.

Botany One📝 Climate Change Gives Grapes the Sweet Taste of Failing Photosynthesis 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n7p5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n7p5</a>Somkuwar & Dhole find that rising temperatures will prove the biggest challenge that centuries-old winemaking traditions have yet faced. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>Climate change is affecting how grapevines photosynthesise, according to a review of research by Somkuwar & Dhole in Theory in Biosciences. The unique flavours of wine grapes are a complicated interaction of chemical processes,

Botany One📝 Endangered Vanilla Orchids Hiding in Plain Sight 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n7k3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n7k3</a>What was thought to be a single vanilla orchid species turns out to be two distinct plants, both fighting for survival. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>You might think vanilla is plain, but research shows it’s anything but. Emerson Pansarin’s latest paper in Plant Ecology and Evolution reveals that a plant thought to be one Vanilla species is two.

Botany One📝 Digital Botany to Protect Plants 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n7gq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n7gq</a>A combination of modern methods and indigenous knowledge could help conserve endangered plants. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>Around the world herbaria hold records of past botanical fieldwork. Botanists have come back from their travels with preserved plant tissues for centuries. Yet, rather than gathering dust as relics of past botanical expeditions, these collections – from Victorian-era wildflowers to Depression-era crops –

Botany One📝 Compassion Can Transform Plant Conservation 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n5kb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n5kb</a>A withering houseplant can tug at our heartstrings just like a suffering animal, showing how emotions could help save plant species. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>How do you get people to care about plant conservation? Pavol Prokop and colleagues have found a way to tug at the public’s heartstrings. They discovered that people feel strong compassion for visibly struggling plants,

Botany One📝 The Natural Spies Inside Bird Feathers 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n5b8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n5b8</a>Tiny grains of pollen are revealing the secret lives of birds, acting as natural tracking devices that tell scientists where they have been. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>

Botany One📝 Botanists Trip Over The Light Fantastic When They Try To Understand Flower Colour 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n45f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n45f</a>What humans see in a flower is nothing like the multi-stage sensory journey that guides insects to blooms. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>Botanists may be forgetting they’re looking at flowers with the wrong kind of eyes according to a new paper by van der Kooi & Spaethe. They say that biologists need to rethink how they measure flower visibility to pollinators.

Botany One📝 Strangely, Pitcher Plants Might Try To Warn Their Prey Not To Enter 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n45g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n45g</a>Pitcher plants may be using red colouration to warn potential pollinators away from their traps. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>The purpurea in Sarracenia purpurea means purple, and refers to the carnivorous plant’s distinctive reddish-purple venation. But not every Sarracenia purpurea plant is purple. Some are green. This has allowed Martin-Eberhardt and colleagues to ask,

Botany One📝 Hidden Networks Inside Brazilian Savanna Plants 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n4d2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n4d2</a>Deep in the cells of a pink-flowered Brazilian plant, researchers have found unexpected living highways of connected cells. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>If you look at plant tissue under a microscope many of the cells will look similar but, among the masses, some individuals will stick out. These cells are often idioblasts and can act as warehouses for producing and storing specific compounds.

Botany One📝 An Anonymous Botanist has Poisoned a Herbarium in New York in an Unusual Way 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n4tf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n4tf</a>My guess: Professor Plum, in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, with the suspicious green bottle. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>Herbaria are essential tools for Botany. They’re collections of preserved plant remains that can be used for reference by other botanists, but they have a problem. Herbaria don’t just attract botanists, they can attract insects.

Botany One📝 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/WhoIsABotanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhoIsABotanist</a>? 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n4sc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n4sc</a>With plant knowledge touching so many parts of our lives, what is it that makes someone a Botanist? <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>There’s an interesting paper in Italian Botanist by Lorenzo Peruzzi, “Some claim for the end of Botany… but what is Botany today?” He argues that Botany is potentially in a very good place. The public has an increasing interest in plants and it’s obvious there’s a real human need for botany in the world today.

Botany One📝 How Trees’ Responses to Rainfall Frequency Could Help Improve Climate Models 🧵 <a href="https://doi.org/n38g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/n38g</a>Climate models often struggle to capture the timing of leaf drop. A new study finds that scientists haven’t been looking at rainfall the way plants have. <a href="https://botany.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://botany.social/tags/PlantScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlantScience</a> 🧪 <a href="https://botany.social/tags/InBrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InBrief</a>Climate models can be useful for helping us prepare for the future, but they can also be useful even if they get something wrong.

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