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Conservation in the City
A new article argues that conservation shouldn’t be left to the countryside. There are major impacts to be made looking at pollinators in the city.
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Getting out in the sun can lead to better sex
What could make sex better for a plant? When it brings in new genes from other plants. And this is what happens when faba beans get heat stress.
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Why did trees start growing up? (or did they just start growing down?)
Today trees reach for the light. However, a recent article says that back in the Devonian period, plants played by different rules.
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A bookmarklet for looking up species in the Encyclopaedia of Life
Want to look up species in the Encyclopaedia of Life a little faster? We have a tool for that.
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In an oft-overlooked part of Brazil, botanists have found something bizarre growing
In the Pantanal it’s possible that botanists have found a plant that taking it’s first steps – upwards.
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Twitter versus Facebook: December 2016
We had a surprising number of well-shared posts in December, and there was no obvious topic that caught your eye, apart from Botany of course.
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Twitter versus Facebook: November 2016
November showed how social media isn’t just about pretty pictures. Sometimes pretty pictures are popular, but for our audience, they need to be backed by science.
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Twitter versus Facebook: October 2016
October was a mixed month. We lost a botanist in terrible circumstances. There was some hope though.
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Twitter versus Facebook: September 2016
In September you liked flowers. You liked them fast and you liked them colourful.
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Twitter versus Facebook: August 2016
In August you had a daring sense of style, both with images and the moves and rhymes to go with them.
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Twitter versus Facebook: July 2016
Our Twitter and Facebook audiences don’t always agree on what they find interesting, but they both agreed that there was a problem in July.
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Twitter versus Facebook: June 2016
This month we learn plants can give and they can take away, but both Nature Plants and AoB PLANTS are happy to give.