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An Australian team has been studying how to best grow vegetables by experimenting with pak choi in urban gardens. They found that canopy cover and garden richness, rather than pollinator visits are the key factors in improving yield.

You can read the original post at https://www.botany.one/2022/03/study-in-sydney-reveals-that-preserving-pollination-is-more-complex-than-boosting-bees/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14136

Smartphone apps are a tool that could help monitor, predict, and ideally prevent the spread of invasive species. But are they living up to their full potential?

Read the post at https://www.botany.one/2022/03/is-that-an-invasive-alien-species-time-to-reach-for-the-phone/

The original article is at https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.71.79597

Small wetland birds may find nesting easier if you periodically set fire to the neighbourhood.

You can read the blog post at https://www.botany.one/2022/03/under-damaged-reed-beds-are-harming-small-wetland-birds/

The original research is at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-022-01961-w, but you might need to use this link to access it https://rdcu.be/cIaeS

Finding a suitable habitat for Rafflesia arnoldii is difficult. While it produces the single largest flower on the planet, it's invisible for much of its life.

You can read the blog post at https://www.botany.one/2022/03/finding-the-habitat-of-an-invisible-plant/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02063

An earlier spring changes the growing conditions for trees, and not always for the better.

Read the post at https://www.botany.one/2022/03/changing-seasons-change-tree-growth-changing-carbon-sequestration-by-forests/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01668-4

Accurate modeling of hydraulics is crucial for determining the effect of drought on plants.

You can read this post online at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/its-all-connected-modeling-water-potential-and-plant-physiological-processes

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diab038

How can you reconstruct the vegetation of deep time? One professor has turned to canvas and paint.

You can read this at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/from-fossils-to-landscapes-the-art-of-reconstructing-plants-in-the-past/

Botanists find that during soil drying, stomatal regulation is controlled by below-ground hydraulics in a predictable way.

Read the post at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/below-ground-hydraulics-control-stomatal-closure/

Read the original article at https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab141

Often archaeologists will examine differences in vegetation to gain information on buried sites. Now, some botanists have reversed this and are using archaeological sites to learn about the effect of nutrient differences on plants.

Read the blog post at https://www.botany.one/2022/02/reverse-archaeology-reveals-new-insights-into-global-warming/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05322-8

Sun et al. used genomic data to reconstruct the phylogeny of Abelia and found a clear pattern of reticulate evolution in the group.

Read the post: https://www.botany.one/2022/02/phylogenomic-analyses-of-the-east-asian-endemic-emabelia-em/

Read the original article at: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab139