All about Ants

Ants are so abundant that mimicking them has become a profitable way of life for many species. Florian Maderspacher and Marcus Stensmyr take a trip into the world of ant mimicry.

Read the article on Current Biology

The Giant Waterlilly

Giant waterlillies in the Amazon -  a beautiful video taken from "The Private Life of Plants" by David Attenborough

 

Charles Darwin and the Origins of Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Plant Cell: Charls Darwin was the first person who carefully read and internalize the remarkable advances in the understanding of plant morphogenesis in the 1840s and 1850s, and his notebooks, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts clearly demonstrate that he had discovered the developmental basis for the evolutionary transformation of plant form

The Plant Cell Online April 2011

Video: Flying Seeds

Video: Flying Seeds

Cool video on seeds dispersal

Dance of the Dumbo Octopus

This footage of a Dumbo octopus was captured 6600 deep off the coast of Oregon, cool video taken from The Science News Blog

A New Era of Space Exploration

Nectar: generation, regulation and ecological functions

In the April Issue of Trends in Plant Science, Martin Heil reviews the recent breakthroughs in the research on nectar proteomics and on the multiple roles of invertases in nectar secretion. Read the article.