Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison

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Pat Heslop-Harrison is Professor of Molecular Cytogenetics and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester. He is also Chief Editor of Annals of Botany.

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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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08 Dec 2011

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More evidence found for quantum physics in photosynthesis

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07 Dec 2011

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Classical Guitar Music to complement videos and free: En la Brisa danosongs.com

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04 Dec 2011

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Jellyfish with blue fluorescence showing Green Fluorescent Proteins GFP

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02 Dec 2011

A witch with broom, pumpkins and orange clothes

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Botany for Halloween – Witches, Brooms and Pumpkins

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28 Oct 2011

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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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16 Oct 2011

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Miscanthus – A bioenergy crop for all seasons – Feature – BBSRC/RuSource

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13 Oct 2011

Plant Cell Structure: a school wall painting in Ethiopia

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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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05 Oct 2011

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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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29 Sep 2011

Back to reality: 77 hours without e-mails and 248 new ones!

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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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23 Sep 2011