Alison Rose Reed

The way that we talk about racial justice matters. Our edited collection, Antiracism Inc., examines how discourses originally created by freedom movements can be appropriated in order to neutralize the very outcomes that those struggles produced and envisioned. For example, many private corporations and public institutions have incorporated the slogan “Black lives matter” as a sign of general support for antiracism and diversity.

Abstract Biological communication by means of structural color has existed for at least 500 million years. Structural color is commonly observed in the animal kingdom, but has been little studied in plants. We present a striking example of multilayer-based strong iridescent coloration in plants, in the fruit of Pollia condensata. The color is caused by Bragg reflection of helicoidally stacked cellulose microfibrils that form multilayers in the cell walls of the epicarp.