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Plant Identification Skills
Taxonomic education and botany are increasingly neglected in schools and universities, leading to a ‘missed generation’ of adults that cannot identify organisms, especially plants. The ‘taxonomic
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Real education with virtual materials
This paper, just published in the Journal of Biological Education, strikes me as having a lot of potential. The method would also be appropriate for online
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News from AoB PLANTS
This summer, Hall Cushman succeeded Mike Jackson as Chief Editor of AoB PLANTS. The new editor is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Sonoma
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Happy Pumpkin Day to all our American Readers!
Today is a holiday (Thanksgiving) in the USA and most of our American readers will be taking a well earned day off in order to overeat
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From Mighty Oaks?
To my shame, I’m not a plant scientist, which means I might be about to ask a silly question. But maybe not, so here goes.
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Effect of external stress on density and size of glandular trichomes in full-grown Artemisia annua, the source of anti-malarial artemisinin
Glandular trichomes (GT) on Artemisia annua produce and store the anti-malarial compound artemisinin (AN) and other secondary metabolites (SM) that have several pharmaceutical and industrial
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This Is Not A Science Book
The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson is a book which wears its heart on its sleeve. This is unashamedly a political book – a campaign. The author,
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Galleria Carnivora
Jeff Karron (AoB’s “pollen Editor”) recently tipped me off about Galleria Carnivora, a museum of colour photographs of carnivorous plants. There are lots of images
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4.03
Annals of Botany’s impact factor just increased to 4.03. If I listen carefully, I can hear the thousands of people who read this blog
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All the best journals are doing it
Starting a blog, that is. It’s good to see PLoS Biology following Annals of Botany’s lead and starting their own blog, PLoS Biologue 😉 A
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The Windup Girl
We don’t normally discuss works of fiction here, so why make an exception for Paolo Bacigalupi’s book, The Windup Girl? I was a big
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GM crops – OMG?
Genetically-modifed crops have never found the acceptability in Europe that they have in other parts of the World, notably the USA. There lots of reasons