Plant Science History – The Quiet Branches

Resolution of Plants over time.

August 17, 2016

This is a follow on to last week’s post, here. Last week I wrote about two papers from The Plant Cell about how plant cells figure out their identity. As part of that, I looked back in the archives of Plant Physiology (first issue 90 years ago– 1926) and The Plant Cell (first issue 1989) and scrolled through … More Resolution of Plants over time.

Roots of Modern Plant Biology.

October 3, 2015

Plants have roots. And a new way of imaging them was recently published in eLife. It’s called GLO-roots and is a way to monitor roots growing in soil as well as track gene expression in those roots via glowing reporters detectable by a very sensitive imaging camera. The story of GLO-roots is clever and new, … More Roots of Modern Plant Biology.

The Quiet Branches

Stories of Under-reported Science

Tag: Plant Science History

Resolution of Plants over time.

Roots of Modern Plant Biology.