Alun Salt
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Uncovering the Plant Pompeii
While excavating in El Salvador, archaeologists sometimes found nothing at all – and that gave a surprising insight into what the ancient Maya grew.
Dissecting the secrets of sexual attraction in orchids
How do pollinators drive evolution in flowering plants? A team from Calabria has investigated a relationship between insects and orchids.
3 Ways New Neighbours Can Interfere With Your Sex Life
With climate change, some upland areas will be colonised by plants that had previously stayed in hotter lowland regions – and that could be bad for upland wildflowers.
Archaeologists surprised by large maize at El Gigante
The discovery of ancient large maize corn cobs at the El Gigante rockshelter might change how we think about the earliest complex societies in Central America.
The Week in Botany 8
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China to buy biodiversity?
Study says compensation schemes could help regrowth of biodiverse forests on collectively owned land
The Week in Botany 7
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一切都必须结束 Saturday Tweets from #IBC2017
All things must end, and the International Botanical Congress does today, but what have people been tweeting?
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