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French researchers used 'resurrection ecology' to compare 2012 pansies with plants from twenty years earlier to see the evolutionary changes in the flowers over time.

You can read the blog post at https://botany.one/2022/08/pansies-undergo-high-speed-evolution-when-pollinators-disappear/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16028

Bioengineering boosts photosynthesis and increases yields in food crops for the first time ever.

You can read this post online at https://botany.one/2022/08/increased-soybean-yields-finally-achieved

You can read the original research at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9831 

Two recent papers take different approaches to the potentially disastrous consequences of loading the stratosphere with ash but combined, they act as a warning for the fragility of food security.

You can read the post at https://botany.one/2022/08/winter-is-coming-and-thats-bad-news-for-food-security/

You can read the research at https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02177-x and https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00573-0

Surveys of Janggun wetland in South Korea have found some parts have no carnivorous plants, but a study of the seed bank shows that they have the potential to return if the wetland is managed correctly.

Read the blog post at https://botany.one/2022/08/its-not-too-late-to-save-the-carnivorous-plants-of-janggun-wetland/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106728

It was thought that people preferred graveyards to be tidy. A new survey finds that visitors can accept the presence of some decaying matter - opening more possibilities for biodiversity.

Read the blog post at https://botany.one/2022/08/ecologists-discover-a-place-for-the-dead-in-graveyards/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081237

Myrmecophobes might want to avoid studying bromeliads in the forests of Costa Rica during the summer. There are plenty of plants, but they seem to attract fire ants.

Read the blog post at https://botany.one/2022/08/bromeliads-offer-ants-a-summer-residence-in-costa-rica/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271040

A model designed to study circadian effects on physiology becomes more broadly useful when the clock regulates metabolites.

You can read this post online at https://botany.one/2022/08/connecting-rhythmic-gene-circuits-to-metabolism-explains-the-slow-growth-rate-of-a-slow-clock-mutant/

You can read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diac010

Light you cannot see, in the infrared part of the spectrum, is surprisingly important for plant photosynthesis.

Read the blog post at https://botany.one/2022/08/photosynthesis-on-the-far-side-of-the-rainbow/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18375

Guides suggest some species are better than others for pollinators, but when you get to the plant nursery you're confronted by half a dozen cultivars of the same species. How do you pick between them?

Read the blog post at https://botany.one/2022/08/which-ornamental-plants-perform-best-for-pollinators/

Read the original research at https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac082

An abridged version of the review of The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in folklore, superstition and traditional medicine by Sandra Lawrence. You can read the full version at https://botany.one/2022/08/for-fans-of-fungi--the-magic-of-mushrooms/