Research Guides: Botany and Plant Biology: News

Keeping Current

ASPB News
Newsletter of the American Society of Plant Biologists
Biology Online - Plant Biology Articles
Links to peer-reviewed articles in the field of plant biology
Botanical Electronic News
An e-periodical by and for botanists.
Carnegie Institution for Science - Department of Plant Biology - Articles
Extending knowledge of fundamental biological mechanisms critical for plant growth and development through basic research.
Plant Biology News
News on Plant Biology continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
The Plant Press
Quarterly newsletter from the S.I. Department of Botany and the U.S. National Herbarium. Included are articles about staff research and travel, visitors, new publications, and plant conservation highlights. In-depth insight in the world of botany is provided in each issue by the Chair of Botany.
Plant Science Bulletin
Online newsletter of the Botanical Society of America

Botany One Weblog
The aim of this weblog is to alert plant scientists around the world to interesting and topical news about plants drawn from a wide variety of sources that include Annals of Botany, AoB PLANTS and in silico Plants.
Botany Word of the Day
An Illustrated guide to Botany terms. Make sense of Latin words used to describe plants and their parts.
Brilliant Botany
The blog focuses on interesting botanical facts, the history of plants, current research, and plant physiology. An accompanying video series can be found on YouTube.
Kew Science: Read and Watch
Explore the latest news and updates from Kew Science
Plants: From Roots to Riches
This 25-episode series describes our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years.
Plant Science Today
Maintained by the American Society of Plant Biologists, this blog is dedicated to facilitating an ongoing conversation around the importance and relevance of plant science around the globe.
USDA Blog > Plant Biology
From the United States Department of Agriculture, read posts tagged "plant biology."

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Latest Botany News (from ScienceDaily.com)

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