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Bananas on the cover – a videoblog
We used a bunch of bananas, one of the species I work with, as the main background image on the cover of Annals of Botany two
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Cover pictures: A Video Blog about inserts and roses
I am discussing the cover images in Annals of Botany in my first video blog today. Each year, we have a large image in the background,
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Grass – good for the environment
Via Scoop.it – AnnBot Soil beneath grassland stores up to 70t/ha of carbon (25t/ha more than arable crops), and acts as a valuable sink for carbon dioxide, one of the gases on the climate change blacklist.Via http://www.talkinggrass.co.uk [http://www.talkinggrass.co.uk]
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More evidence found for quantum physics in photosynthesis
Via Scoop.it – AnnBot Physicists have found the strongest evidence yet of quantum effects fueling photosynthesis. Multiple experiments in recent years have suggested as much, but
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Classical Guitar Music to complement videos and free: En la Brisa danosongs.com
Via Scoop.it – AnnBot “When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an
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Botany for Halloween – Witches, Brooms and Pumpkins
At the moment, I am teaching plant hormones in our course on plant cell and developmental biology (BS1003). Fortunately, hormones and development link well with Halloween
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Food for the billions – botany has the answers #bad11
Not only do the growing billions of people in the world want to eat, but those in poorer countries want to share in the lifestyles those of us enjoy in the West. They don’t want to be wondering where the next meal for themselves and their families will be coming from; they don’t want to get ill from
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Miscanthus – A bioenergy crop for all seasons – Feature – BBSRC/RuSource
Via Scoop.it – AnnBot Alan Spedding, Rusource Briefing 1381: Miscanthus breeding Researchers at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at the University of
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That first University lecture on biological sciences
What to tell new Biological Science students in their first lecture? We are drowning in high-quality information, but need to teach how to find and evaluate information, and what to do with it. Social media now plays a part in this, and Practical classes are one of the greatest opportunities for lea
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Affable Nerds and Second Bananas: What Science Communicators Can Learn From Top Gear
Via Scoop.it – molcyt“Why has academia largely ignored one of the world’s most popular technology programmes – and what does the show tell us about the effective communication of complex ideas?” A review of a scholarly paper on what we as scientists can learn from Top Gear about presentation of te
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Italian Genetics Societies in Assisi: staple foods and orphan crops via epigenomics and systems biology
The three Genetics Societies in Italy – AGI, SIBV and SIGA – held a strong joint conference in Assisi in September. With 500 people and 300 posters, the major sessions were on topical issues such as epigenetics and epigenomics, then genome plasticity, moving on to systems biology. , Approaches inclu
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Chromosomes Today and the icc18 conference in UK
Review of International Chromosome Conference