Alun Salt
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Your lawn can identify the traces of vehicle pollution
Mobile and plant-based measurements of fossil fuel CO2 can help quantify decarbonization progress in cities
Attracting bees is not always a smooth process for plants
Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees.
The future of sweet corn turns sour
Heat during flowering damages the kernels before they develop.
In Madagascar, the lemurs need the trees, and the trees need the lemurs
Hikori Sato explains why a living forest isn’t just a collection of trees.
Learn how to look at Lichen
April Windle presents The Wonderful World of Lichens: Introduction to Saving Devon’s Treescapes
Plants remember how much warmer than usual it was last year
Stress memories using epigenetics are helping plants adapt to climate change.
When you don’t kill weeds you teach them how to survive
It’s not your imagination, some plants are prepared for your hoe when you try to eradicate them from your garden.
How does it feel?
Plants might not feel pain as such, but they need a way to get damage signals around their body. A new study uncovers some of the process.
Lianas more likely to infest smaller trees
Sometimes it takes a shorter plant to help a liana get to the top.
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