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Why digital botany matters now
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Why digital botany matters now
Millions of herbarium specimens are now only a click away. But how do botanists find the right records, sort the right images and train better AI tools? Three digital botany tools...
As Botany One’s Digital Botany Focus Issue comes to a close, this reflection looks back at the people, platforms and hidden labour behind the digital biodiversity revolution.
Every plant photograph you upload to iNaturalist holds an untapped scientific superpower, thanks to PhenoVision. This new framework has processed nearly 40 million iNaturalist imag...
Before a plant becomes a digital record, it passes through the hands of collectors, taxonomists and curators. Scientists across Latin America reveal why turning specimens into data...
From seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive.
An Unexpected Use of a Digital Collection
Digital botany is changing what we can ask of old collections. Herbarium specimens, once used mainly for taxonomy and identification, are now helping researchers study evolution, s...
Anyone with a smartphone probably has a camera roll of images waiting to be sorted through. Now imagine you have millions of images to process, and associated data to manage, and s...
We often think of herbaria as a scientific resource used by researchers to study plant taxonomy, evolution, conservation and climate change, perhaps. But herbarium collections are...
Digital botany can do something extraordinary. It can take records, DNA sequences, phylogenetic trees, threat assessments and maps, and use them to highlight species that need urge...
As crop collections become increasingly digital, EURISCO shows why conserving plant diversity means managing not only seeds, but also the data that give them meaning.
Natural history collections are historical repositories brimming with potential. Not only are plant and fungal specimens fundamental to scientific research, but they also give us i...
This week: Lichen genomics, AI in ecological research, organelle positioning and more.
This week: Ecology, C4 photosynthesis, cross kingdom communication and more.
This week: selective autophagy, maize flowering, water-potential sensing, and much more.
Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi dataThe rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against exti...
Everyone knows that it is important to have the right tools for the job, whether collecting plants in the field for scientific research or cooking them in the kitchen for dinner. T...
Botany One interviews Dr Chris Thorogood, who aims to foster a greater care and attention for plants through science and art.
Botany One interviews Dr Adaises Maciel-Silva, a Brazilian biologist fascinated with bryophytes —a group of plants that is mostly overlooked.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to change how we live our daily lives, and whether this makes you feel nervous or optimistic you can’t deny that conversations about AI ar...
This week: computerised evolution, leaf scorching, lichen symbiosis and more.
As Kew Botanic Gardens completes a scan of its collections, AI tools could help in the fight against biodiversity loss
This week: plant immunity, gall production, and improvements to Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation.
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