Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I celebrate World Bee Day by honouring one of my favourite bee groups, Eeuglossine bees #Euglossa #Orchidbee #WorldBeeDay 020
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Paper out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1438...! Can an #invasive plant disrupt #pollination in just days? Our study shows that #HimalayanBalsam reduces effective pollen transfer to the native Stachys sylvatica by 80% within 4 days. Visits are not always pollination! @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 072
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025And last but not least....Jeanne Baret...probably the 1st female botanist who circumnavigated the globe pretending to be a man. Her work started to receive visibility recently. 131
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Barbara Mcclintock Transposable elements (TEs), also known as "jumping genes", something that the scientific community found hard to believe 220
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Sarah Anne Drake .... Another illustrator whose work was critical for descriptions of species in a period with no camera...and was dedicated the genus Drakaea 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Pamela Soltis...who doesn't know her? APG IV and so much more! 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Mary Agnes Chase was an important scientific illustrator...take this...of Poaceae!!! and review the taxonomy of grasses 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Marie Clark Taylor was the first African-American female botanist to obtain a Doctorate in Botany. Her work advanced our understanding of photoreceptors and plant growth. She also contributed to improving science programs in education. 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Asima Chatterjee was the 1st woman to gain a Doctorate in the University of Calcuta and her work has contributed to the knowledge of plant compounds with use for cancer treatment 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Janaki Annal in India using hybridization experiments contributed to crop improvement of sugar cane so her work, in addition, helped the Indian economy 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Monica Gagliano works in plant communication and how plants can hear and learn and her work breaks the structured way of studying plants 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia started her career as a botanist in her 50s and traveled through the Amazon ON HER OWN...so it is never too late! she botanised ca. 150.000 plants and discovered 500 species and 2 genera 120
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Carolina Martinez Pulido is a female scientist who contributed to our knowledge of the endemic Pinus canariensis and her work has been pivotal for its conservation 120
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo, from New Zealand and Chile, has contributed to plant knowledge and conservation of plants in the Andes 130
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Marianne North, like many women of her time, spent her time drawing flowers, and her scientific work helped to describe new species, pioneering the work of scientific illustrators. 140
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025At the University of Malaga we have Maria Altamirano who is an expert in algae 120
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Lilian Suzette Gibbs was a female botanist interested in the ecology of plants in the mountains and advanced our knowledge of Orchids 110
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Katherine Esau advanced our knowledge of viral infections in plants, which is pivotal in agronomy. 150
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Jane Colden, 1st botanist in America she contributed to common knowledge to her scientific illustrations. 130
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 06/03/2025So here are some of the women presented by my students.... Blanca Catalán de Ocón y Gayola, one of our first female botanists in Spain, she botanized plants in Aragón 120
Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Ok so this is my first contribution to this social network...join the conversation on pollination ecology...since bsky is represented by 🦋 it makes sense to start this group! 0111
