Metaflora: Your goal is to figure out today's Mystery Plant in as few guesses as possible. Wrong guesses will narrow down the answer by taxonomic rank (kingdom, phylum, class, order, etc.) (flora.metazooa.com)
Unveiling nutrient flow mediated stress in the plant roots using on-chip phytofluidic device (arxiv.org)
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Genetic control of thermomorphogenesis in tomato inflorescences - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
What Plants Hear (nautil.us)
Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
Asparagus and orchids are more similar than you think: Cell wall reference catalog of 287 species created (phys.org)
Back from the dead: Tropical tree fern repurposes its dead leaves (www.sciencedaily.com)
Plants That Are Predators (Published 2015) (www.nytimes.com)
Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don't know why—but finding out could change the way we grow things (phys.org)
The mystery of the mimic plant (www.vox.com)
Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said....
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org)
Comparing iNaturalist to herbarium data, and other stories (botany.one)
Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds (www.science.org)
An amazing poster series on the natural history of plants (mander.xyz)
Produced by the MAdLand consortium and made publically accessible via Zenodo. The series was presented in exhibition form in several botanical gardens across Germany this summer. Only this German version exists, unfortunately.
Take a break from your screen and look at plants − botanizing is a great way to engage with life around you (worldsensorium.com)
MSU plant biologists shed light on 144-year-old seedy mystery (msutoday.msu.edu)
Why Is Everything an Orchid? Orchids were Darwin’s “abominable mystery.” They continue to elude science—and efforts to save them. (nautil.us)
Ranunculus repens, aka the "Creeping Buttercup" sporting some drippy spots. 💅 (mander.xyz)
Guide to ID UK buttercups: …wordpress.com/…/three-of-our-common-buttercups-t…