 | Senescence of the deciduous leaves of salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) results in brilliant color changes, from green to red.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | The Round-leaf sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) attracts a meal with sticky sweet sap.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | The emerging fronds of Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum) signal the arrival of spring in British Columbia.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | Coastal temperate rainforests of British Columbia are moss-covered and productive environments.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | The wind-borne seeds of Mountain Aven (Dryas integrifolia). Mountain Avens are common in Northern Canada, and range to the most northerly parts of the Canadian High Arctic.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | Seasons are compressed in the Canadian High Arctic, and plants typically go through reproductive cycles in less than 3 months. Autumn colors highlight the otherwise neutral-toned environment.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | The Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) is one of five species of Juniper in British Columbia.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | (Typha latifolia) is common to wetlands across Canada.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | Cotton grass (Eriophorum spp.) is abundant in the Canadian Arctic, as seen here at Dundas Harbour on Devon Island.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | Maiden-hair ferns (Adiantum pedatum) are among the most beautiful of British Columbia’s many fern species.
Submit by: Colin Bates
Submit on: Monday,Oct 5th ,2009 |
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 | The arctic lupine is one of the preferred foods of snowshoe hares in the southern Yukon
Submit by: Roy Turkington
Submit on: Friday,Apr 3rd ,2009 |
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 | Our Botany Department is one of the largest and strongest in North America. Research ranges from ecosystems to genomics, and from plants to protists.
Submit by: Sean Shang
Submit on: Friday,Apr 3rd ,2009 |
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 | Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts transformed with GFP. 63X mag.
Submit by: Jonathan Griffiths
Submit on: Friday,Apr 3rd ,2009 |
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 | Jennie McLaren and Carolyn Marshall work on a grassy esker overlooking Emerald Lake.
Submit by: Roy Turkington
Submit on: Thursday,Apr 2nd ,2009 |
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 | 3D model of a Golgi stack secreting pectin, built using electron tomography. For her PhD research, Robin Young has used electron tomography and other advanced microscopic techniques to examine how plants produce and secrete complex polysaccharides in the Arabidopsis seed coat.
Submit by: Robin Young
Submit on: Thursday,Apr 2nd ,2009 |
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 | Members of Mark Vellend's lab study the maintenance of biodiversity in oak savannas of southwestern British Columbia
Submit by: Mark Vellend
Submit on: Thursday,Apr 2nd ,2009 |
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 | Post-doc Hiroshi Tomimatsu and Assistant Professor Mark Vellend studied the influence of bulb trading by First Nations peoples on genetic diversity in an important traditional food plant, camas
Submit by: Mark Vellend
Submit on: Thursday,Apr 2nd ,2009 |
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 | Jennie McLaren and Carolyn Marshall survey their sites overlooking Emerald Lake.
Submit by: Roy Turkington
Submit on: Thursday,Apr 2nd ,2009 |
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 | Spruce bark beetle has killed 90% of the adult trees near Kluane Lake, southern Yukon
Submit by: Roy Turkington
Submit on: Thursday,Apr 2nd ,2009 |
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