Botanical art in an ongoing series in Plant Science Bulletin

A news item written by F. Curtis Lubbe at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In science-meets-art news, a series of issues of Plant Science Bulletin by the Botanical Society of America will be published as part of their Art in the Botanical Sciences: Past, Present, and Future series.  This series …

Why go belowground?

A commentary by F. Curtis Lubbe at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The belowground lives of plants are very different than those we see above the soil. As aboveground, in the soil plants grow, branch, forage, compete, and have complex multualistic relationships. However, all of these processes are a bit …