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How many beans make … 600?
The Book of Seeds: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world, Edited by Paul Smith 2018. University of Chicago Press. The
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Hospital procedure harms patients…
What would you think if you saw that as a headline? You’d rightly be concerned. After all, you’d assume it was about human patients
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Monstrous botanicals, the darker side of the human imagination
Monsters Under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present by Jane Desmarais 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Probably, the most obvious interaction
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Uncovering underground Botany
Hidden in the shadows, plants have survived catastrophic deforestation by taking refuge in caves.
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To find true botanical art, go … North!
Marianne North: the Kew Collection by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2018. Kew Publishing. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are rightly famed for their living collection
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Genomes galore!
We’re not usually that big on plant genomes (“the complete set of genetic information in an organism”) in Cuttings items. We know what they are,
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Moringa! More than meets the eye
We rightly ponder the problem of future food security – in which plants, plant science, and plant scientists (in the broadest sense of that term) have a
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The incredible journey of etrog, a most religious fruit
Etrog: How a Chinese fruit became a Jewish symbol by David Moster 2018. Palgrave Pivot. It is fair to say that Etrog: How a Chinese fruit
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A date with history: The past, present, and future of palms…
Palm by Fred Gray 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Fred Gray’s Palm [hereafter referred to as … Palm] is the second title in Reaktion Books’ Botanical series
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Some more summer (and autumn…) reading
News of two new journals. Although neither is strictly a botanical or plant science publication, they both cover plant science-relevant topics. First is The Cell
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Raising awareness of plant blindness
Readers of this column will know that there is a problem with the inability – or unwillingness – of people generally to appreciate plants. This is the well-
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80 wonderful trees and their stories
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori 2018. Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Stephen Barstow did it with plants, Dan Cruikshank did it with man-