The journey belowground: Gardens, nurseries, and beyond

A commentary by Noel Kingsbury including his work with Úna Sherer (pictured). Gardeners always seem to accept the importance of roots, but in a way that is entirely rhetorical and never followed up with any real desire to investigate. Modern nursery production containerises almost everything, thus the consumer will never see anything anyway, just the …

Belowground in the Karoo of South Africa

Photos by Jana Martínková Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. We at ExFuMo (Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology) like belowground plant organs, we like to travel, and we are curious about what goes on belowground in places other than our own home in the Czech Republic. So, a few times a …